Chapter 1 & 2 Vocabulary - Alexander Hamilton

a fight, using guns or swords, between two people as a way of deciding an argument

• Insult

• Duel

• Encompass

• Plantation

a person who is afraid to participate in dangerous or unpleasant things

• Coward

• Valuable

• Unusual

• Insult

speak to or treat with disrespect

• Prodigious

• Perpetual

• Unusual

• Insult

surround or include

• Inherit

• Plantation

• Encompass

• Abandon

to receive money, land, or something valuable from someone who has died

• Inherit

• Merchant

• Astonishment

• Prodigious

rare or out of the ordinary

• Abandon

• Coward

• Valuable

• Unusual

something that is worth a lot

• Perpetual

• Valuable

• Astonishment

• Duel

a very large farm or early stages of a new colony

• Merchant

• Apprentice

• Plantation

• Encompass

to leave something behind

• Perpetual

• Coward

• Insult

• Abandon

someone who provides help to a skilled worker in order to learn the trade himself

• Prodigious

• Astonishment

• Merchant

• Apprentice