vocab. 2

1. Disdain - n - contempt - She viewed him with disdain when she got the dreaded letter.
2. Dogmatic - adj - asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner - She dreaded having to work with him due to his very dogmatic ways.
3. Egregious - adj - extraordinary in some bad way - His egregious attitude got him suspended from the service.
4. Emulate - adj -  imitate with effort to equal or surpass - Petey the parrot's goal to emulate anything better than any other parrot got him ran over. 
5. Dissipated - v - scattered or dispersed - The crowd dissipated after FDR's speech on Dec. 7, 1941.
6. Diminution - n - act of lessening - The diminution of the army after WWI left the U.S. unprepared for WWII. 
7. Disparage - v - to speek of or treat slightly - Laughing hysterically, she began to disparage the hat he thought was so cool and he never wore it again.
8. Effervescent - adj - happy - The effervescent Milles was the only one not to get a kick out of the race.
9. Elucidate - v - make clear - "Let me elucidate this for ya, we are at war! dimwit!,"bellowed the general.
10. Distraught - adj - deeply agitated - The convict was anything but distraught when the guards came to his cell.

p. 122 answers

1. Everything but god keeps them alive. He is saying humans are nothing special./If God drops a person, he/she would plummet into hell and nothing could stop them like a rock falling through a spider's web. If God is upset with a person then he will destroy the person, and all that would be left is dust like when the wheat goes through a threshing machine and all that is left on the floor is the chaff./
2. The Earth, Sun, animals, air, wind, and water don't serve the sinner./A storm with thunder and black clouds shows God's anger. Anger is represented by darkness and being out of control, which is like a storm.
3. Change your heart and praise God and nothing else./The bow wants to release the arrow at your heart, and it would make the bow happy to do that.The reason it is scary is that you have an arrow pointed at your heart.
4. There is no reason someone is not in Hell ever and that is where you are going. God holds you up over Hell./No one wants to be in Hell and be worried all the time.
5. Short term: you try to be better than you were, Long term: You get used to it and either become lax or keep believing.

5B.
Shakespeare's take on God is that one of his attribute is that he is merciful. That this mercy is dropped from heaven gently and absorbed by the kings, and they rule justly. Edward's sermon paints God as merciless as he can drop the hammer at any time although he is merciful because God chooses not to.

p. 108 1-3 a,b 5a

1. 200 grim courtiers who have their heads and shoulders painted red with white beads around their necks/ Powhaten was holding a court session, and to show power he dressed in his finest. Smith killed a bunch of them and only capitulated when he was too cold. It was only natural for him to think that the village people would view him as a monster for the bad deeds he did/

2. Powhaten orders the execution, Pocahontis, covers his head with hers/ It was just an adoption ritual to show that he was about to become part of the family and his "sister and family" would save and protect him/

3. food, so they don't starve to death/The colony was low on supplies and people were dying of starvation and without Pocahontis' visits and food everyone would have died.

5. I think Smith was never in peril, but misunderstood the situation and decided they were going to kill him/ I think he thought that he was telling the truth and repeated it to others to make himself look better and more heroish.

p. 100 anwers

1. They subjected, took, used and ill used them, and ate their food./They eat a lot more than the indians cause they are fat.

2. killed 100 for every Spaniard killed./They are slaves and to keep them rebelling

3. not very well, infernal/Suffocation.

4. enslave them and work them to death, they are not human/Money, cheddar, mulla, greenbacks, dough., he became a priest and wanted more converts.

vocab. 1

1. Callous-adj-showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others- His callous comments to his fellow soldiers caused them not to be sad when he was reported KIA.


2. Capricious-adj-given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior- His capricious tendencies caused him to lose all of his money.


3. Cajole-v-persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery- Lt. Miller cajoled the MP into letting her in to see Admiral Bird.


4. Censure-v-express severe disapproval- After being let in to see him, Lt. Miller censured Admiral Bird for getting her men killed.


5. Catalyst-n-speeds up something with out changing itself- She was a catalyst for Fred to get his butt in gear.


6. Caustic-adj-sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way- His caustic comments toward a coworker caused no remose when he was ran over by a steamroller.


7. Capitulate-v-surrender- When the Nazis tried to capitulate to the Soviet Russians, they were slaughtered.


8. Celestial-adj-positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in- The 'Cats worshiped the sun due to being the greatest celestial body.


9. Catharsis-n-the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.- The Lt.'s catharsis was released after pummeling a sandbag.


10. Carping-v-complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters - He kept carping about the homework, until his dad told him to shut up.

Constitution

1. Adodarhoh/he is outlining that laws and regulations and rituals that the 5/6 nations will fallow, I think they were important because they didn't have a written language and they passed down stories and traditions orally
2. The cousin lords/ no they are just fellow lords
3. He shows them a wampum and that he will live according to the constitution/
    shall be proof against anger, can't lead others astray,
4. give thanks to the creator and nature and the tree/ They care for nature and honer it
5. Yes, they care about nature and peace so the leaders have to fallow the rules

Vocab. 7

Avaunt-adv-away-
Thralls-n-power over someone-
Posterity-n-future generations of people-
Homage-n-respect shown publicly-
Cloistered-adj-sheltered from the outside world-
Equivocator-n-telling things with duel meaning-
Avarice-n-extreme greed for wealth-
Parricide-n-killing of a near relative-
Verity-n-true principle or belief-
Malevolence-n-a wish to do evil to others-
Eminence-n-fame or recognized superiority-
Liege-n-feudal superior or lord-
Mirth-n-amusement-
Avouch-v-affirm-