Unit 4 Test Vocab

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Prohibited

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forbidden

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Contracting

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term for acquiring something

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Surly

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bad-tempered and unfriendly

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Pedantic

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excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules

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Sustenance

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something that provides nourishment; food needed to live

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Encroaching

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trespassing, intruding

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Resolve

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Determination, firmness of purpose

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Espionage

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the act of spying, especially a government spy obtaining secrets of another government

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Comprehensive

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covering or including everything

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Abolitionists

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People who believed slavery should be illegal.