Vocabulary: The War of 1812

feeling surprised or amazement

• looming

• astonished

• ejected

• treaty

very sad

• dejected

• quench

• truce

• looming

threatening to happen, hinting that something bad or negative is going to happen

• represent

• fear

• looming

• dejected

a place on the coast that has a harbor in which ships can dock

• seize

• sail

• harbor

• port

to put something out or to lessen or reduce it

• decrease

• quench

• reuse

• recycle

to speak for or take action in place of someone or something else

• represent

• vote

• treaty

• dimisnish

to use official power to take something

• seize

• steal

• take

• truce

to give up or stop fighting and allow the other side to win

• run

• give up

• surrender

• quit

a formal agreement between two countries

• astonished

• port

• quench

• treaty

an agreement to stop fighting or arguing

• truce

• port

• looming

• surrender