High School
HS Unit II: Women's Struggle for Equal Rights, 1825 - 1930
Unit Vocabulary List
| $300,000: | $300,000 in 1870 has the purchasing value of approximately $4,463,000 today |
| abject: | miserable, wretched |
| abridged: | shortened |
| adjourned: | ended the meeting |
| alienation: | transfer |
| amalgamation: | interracial mariage |
| amalgamation: | mixing of (in this case races) |
| arbitrary: | random |
| attested: | proven |
| avowed: | sworn by |
| beneficent: | doing good |
| benevolence : | acts of kindness or good will |
| blasphemy: | profanity, curses |
| blasphemy : | profanity |
| bodily correction : | physical punishment |
| branch of benevolence: | areas of reform, charitable work |
| breeches: | pants |
| canvass: | solicit votes, a campaign strategy |
| circular: | a letter distributed to a large number of people; a mass mailing |
| commencement: | opening |
| competent: | reasonable |
| competent : | adequate |
| conceded: | granted as right or privilege |
| concession: | something given up |
| conscript: | draft |
| conscript: | draft into military service |
| constrained: | limited, restricted |
| constrained : | limited |
| consummation: | the making of something complete or perfect |
| contemplating: | suggesting |
| contingent: | representative group |
| conveyance: | transfer |
| conveyance : | transfer of property |
| convulsion: | complexity, twisting; a major war |
| correction: | punishment |
| custody: | protective care, guardianship |
| decorum: | politeness, appropriate behavior |
| deem: | think |
| degrade: | dishonor, reduce to a lower status |
| design: | plan |
| diabolical: | devil-like |
| disappointed: | surprised |
| discern: | recognize |
| discern: | perceive, distinguish |
| distracted: | mentally ill |
| distracted : | not of sound mind |
| doctrines: | principles |
| elective franchise: | right to vote |
| elective franchise : | the vote |
| employment: | activity |
| endeavored: | worked |
| endeavoring: | trying hard, struggling |
| endowed: | provided with income |
| ensuing: | coming |
| estate: | property |
| exercise: | put into action |
| extemporaneous: | spoken without preparation |
| extemporaneous : | without advance preparation or notes |
| forensic: | pertaining to public debate |
| forensic: | rhetorical, used in effective or persuasive speech or writing |
| forensic : | used in debate |
| forfeit: | give up |
| heirs male of their bodies: | sons |
| humane: | compassionate, kind, charitable |
| idiot: | individual with developmental delays; mentally retarded |
| impromptus: | spontaneous, unprepared |
| inalienable: | absolute, nonnegotiable |
| incalculably: | enormously |
| indulged: | permitted |
| infidelity: | unfaithfulness, esp. adultery |
| injuries: | wrongs, offenses |
| injurious: | harmful |
| intestate: | without a will |
| intestate : | without a will |
| Jezebel: | a wicked, shameless woman |
| juncture: | point of time |
| just reason: | good reason |
| lamentable: | regrettable, miserable |
| latent: | hidden, undeveloped |
| latent: | not visible |
| licentiousness: | immorality, promiscuity |
| licentiousness: | immorality |
| lucid: | clear |
| manifested: | shown |
| menace: | nuisance, threat |
| merits: | good points |
| monopolize: | dominate, take complete control of |
| motley: | mixed breed |
| municipal suffrage: | right to vote in town/city elections |
| municipal suffrage: | right to vote in city elections |
| notoriously: | widely known (negative connotation) |
| occupation: | activity |
| orated: | spoke |
| peculiar state of commercial affairs: | an economic depression |
| peculiar : | extraordinary |
| phonographic: | using a kind of shorthand |
| pie-bald: | (usually in reference to an animal) with patches of color |
| product of her industry: | her earnings |
| promiscuous: | random or indiscriminate |
| Providence: | God or religious tradition |
| provocation: | an act or instance that can be seen as an insult or as offensive |
| ratified : | approved |
| recompense: | payment |
| redress: | correct, make right |
| referendum: | direct popular vote on a political question |
| relieved: | helped |
| remuneration : | payment |
| renovating: | reforming |
| rouse: | wake, excite |
| sanction: | approval |
| scanty remuneration: | little pay |
| scholars: | students |
| scholars : | students |
| school suffrage: | right to vote in school board elections |
| school suffrage: | right to vote for school board/committee members |
| serviceable: | useful |
| sphere: | proper place |
| sphere: | area of influence or action |
| stripes: | whipping |
| submit: | obey |
| subscriptions: | pledges |
| subscriptions : | pledges of money |
| suffrage states: | states where women may vote |
| superseded: | replaced |
| superseded: | taken over by |
| toil: | slow hard work |
| tyranny: | cruel and arbitrary use of power |
| unimpeded: | uninterrupted |
| usurpation: | the seizure or taking wrongfully |
| usurpation : | wrongful seizure |
| utopia: | an imagined perfect place or state of things |
| utopia: | ideal place or state |
| vagabond: | a wanderer, bum |
| want: | lack |
| wholesome: | healthy |
| wrought: | created, literally shaped by hammering |