Before We Were Free Vocab Chapter 1

one of the people who traveled by boat from England and created the first permanent settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620

• pilgrim
• tic
• benefactor
• consul

a small repeated movement of a muscle especially in the face that cannot be controlled

• pilgrim
• tic
• benefactor
• consul

someone who helps another person, group, etc., by giving money

• pilgrim
• tic
• benefactor
• consul

a government official whose job is to live in a foreign country and protect and help the citizens of his or her own country who are traveling, living, or doing business there

• pilgrim
• tic
• benefactor
• consul

the way someone acts or feels in response to something that happens,  is said, etc.

• reaction
• bawling
• strewn
• nuclear

to cry very loudly

• reaction
• bawling
• strewn
• nuclear

to spread or scatter things over or on the ground or some other surface

• reaction
• bawling
• strewn
• nuclear

having or involving nuclear weapons

• reaction
• bawling
• strewn
• nuclear

growing or hanging in an untidy way

• straggly
• economize
• recitation
• pilgrim

to use money, resources, etc., carefully

• straggly
• economize
• recitation
• pilgrim