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ReaL Book, Stage B: Workshop 4, Part 2

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  1. respect
    regard highly; think much of
  2. respectful
    exhibiting an attitude of admiration or esteem
  3. respectable
    deserving of esteem
  4. disrespect
    a manner that is generally discourteous and contemptuous
  5. disrespectful
    exhibiting lack of regard; rude and discourteous
  6. witness
    someone who sees an event and reports what happened
    Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton questions witnesses from the theater.
  7. identify
    recognize as being
    Each one identifies actor John Wilkes Booth as the shooter.
  8. accomplice
    a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan
    Booth and his accomplice David Herold stop to pick up two rifles at Surratt Tavern.
  9. Confederate
    of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
    The owner, Mary Surratt, is a Confederate sympathizer.
  10. confederate
    united in a league
    The owner, Mary Surratt, is a Confederate sympathizer.
  11. emancipate
    free from slavery or servitude
    Mudd, a Confederate supporter, owned slaves until Lincoln emancipated them.
  12. fugitive
    someone who is sought by law officers
    Mudd treats Booth’s leg. He invites the fugitives to spend the night.
  13. cavalry
    troops trained to fight on horseback
    Jones wants to help the fugitives. But Union cavalry are nearby.
  14. remain
    continue in a place, position, or situation
    Booth and Herold must remain in hiding.
  15. claim
    assert or affirm strongly
    When Union soldiers first questioned Dr. Mudd, he claimed not to know the men who visited his farm on April 15.
  16. capture
    succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
    Soldiers capture Jett at the hotel.
  17. declare
    state emphatically and authoritatively
    In Philadelphia, Lincoln’s coffin lay in Independence Hall, where he had declared he would “rather be assassinated” than surrender the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
  18. principle
    a basic truth or law or assumption
    In Philadelphia, Lincoln’s coffin lay in Independence Hall, where he had declared he would “rather be assassinated” than surrender the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
  19. voyage
    an act of traveling by water
    The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
    From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won
  20. object
    the goal intended to be attained
    The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
    From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won
Created on Thu Apr 01 15:39:13 EDT 2021 (updated Wed Apr 07 09:55:08 EDT 2021)

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