Collection 1: Of Plymouth Plantation

As you read William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 1: Of Plymouth Plantation, Coming of Age in the Dawnland, The Tempest, Balboa, 'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans
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words only definitions & notes
  1. diverse
    many and different
  2. lusty
    endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
  3. execration
    an appeal to a supernatural power to inflict evil on someone
  4. reprove
    reprimand, scold, or express dissatisfaction with
  5. fain
    in a willing manner
  6. loath
    strongly opposed
  7. staunch
    stop the flow of a liquid
  8. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  9. hull
    the frame or body of a ship
  10. halyard
    a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag
  11. habitation
    housing that someone is living in
  12. Scripture
    the sacred writings of the Christian religions
  13. importunity
    insistent solicitation and entreaty
  14. tender
    offer or present for acceptance
  15. resolute
    firm in purpose or belief
  16. meet
    being precisely fitting and right
  17. espy
    catch sight of
  18. forsake
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  19. rendezvous
    a place where people meet
  20. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  21. circulate
    move in circles
  22. barricado
    block off with barricades
  23. grampus
    slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
  24. withal
    together with this
  25. patent
    an official document granting a right or privilege
  26. mutinous
    characterized by a rebellion against authority
  27. scurvy
    a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid
  28. loathsome
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  29. sachem
    a chief of a North American tribe or confederation
  30. confederate
    a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan
Created on Sun Jun 29 20:29:49 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 02 09:33:11 EDT 2014)

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