Across Five Aprils Vocabulary: Chapters 1-2

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Reverberations

Reverberations

pg. 2 (n.) prolongation of a sound; resonance

Inclination

pg. 10 (n.) a person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition or propensity

Perplexities

pg. 13 (n.) inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable

Contempt

pg. 17 (n.) the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration worthless, or deserving scorn

Tremulous

ph. 25 (adj.) sharking or quivering slightly

Venement

pg. 28 (adj.) showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate or intense

Imminence

pg. 6 (adj.) extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree

Intervention

pg. 12 (n.) the action or process of intervening

Amiable

pg. 16 (adj.) having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

Elicited

pg. 19 (v.) evoke or draw out ( a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one’s own actions or questions

Abolitionists

pg. 26 (n.) a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

Industrialism

pg. 28 (n.) a social or economic system built on manufacturing industries

Tariffs

pg.9 (n.) a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

Dissipate

pg. 12 (v.) disappear or cause to disappear

Coveted

pg. 17 (adj.) greatly desired or envied

Buoyancy

pg. 20 (n.) the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid

Mason-Dixon Line

pg. 27 (n.) the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, taken as the northern limit of the slave-owning states before the abolition of slavery

Constrained

pg.24 (adj.) appearing forced. or overly controlled

Seceding

pg. 9 (v.) withdraw formally from membership

Waver

pg. 13 (v.) shake with quivering motion

Rampage

ph. 17 (v.) rush around in a violent and uncontrollable manner

Arrogant

pg. 25 (adj.) having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own important or abilities

Lumult

pg. 27 (n.) a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people

Seething

pg. 30 (adj.) filled with or characterized by intense but unexpressed anger