Week Two Vocabulary From Freedom Train
l. abolished formally
put an end to (p. 42 Now there was a growing
community of people, North and South, who believed that slavery should be abolished.)
2. vowed promised
to do something (p. 49 When she
was brought home, more dead than alive, he vowed
to sell her if she recovered.)
3. defiance bold
disobedience (p. 49 Her act of defiance, resulting in the loss
of a valuable slave, could not go unpunished.)
4. extravagance luxury (p. 55 If she scolded him for his extravagance or begged him to
look for work, he’d throw back his head and laugh, teasing her until she joined
in with him.)
5. vigorously strongly;
powerfully; forcefully (p. 57 She shook him vigorously. “Master’s dead. They say well all be sold.”)
6. gravely seriously;
in a serious manner ( p. 61 Gravely, Harriet stowed the note in her market basket and
made ready to depart.)
7. glumly in
a depressed, sad manner. (63 “We could be going around in
circles all night here, for all we know,” Benjie glumly insisted.)
8. wharves a place where boats are
docked in a harbor (p. 67 Where the river flowed into
the bay it formed a busy harbor, lined with wharves and fishermen’s huts and sailing vessels loading up
for Baltimore.)
9. dismay to cause someone to
be upset, to appall or horrify (p.
71 With dismay, Harriet
realized that they were building a fire.)
10. desirous eager
for or longing for (p.
75 He was desirous of
purchasing some of my hay, and he stopped the night with us.)
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