vocabulary set number 4

guerrilla warfare

• The use of surprise attacks by small bands of fighters

• Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

Quartering

• the coats of arms marshalled on a shield to denote the marriages into a family of the heiresses of others.

• A law that required colonist to feed and shelter british troops stationed in the colonies

• the provision of accommodations or lodgings, especially for troops.

Blockade

• an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• blockade; 3rd person present: blockades; past tense: blockaded; past participle: blockaded; gerund or present participle: blockading

• seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving

• The blocking of a port by warships.

Militia

• a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

  "creating a militia was no answer to the army's manpower problem"

• Volunteer soldiers.

• A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time ...

• all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service.

Loyalist

• Loyalists were American colonists who stayed loyal to the Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time. They were opposed by the "Patriots", who supported the revolution, and called them "persons inimical to the liberties of America".

• a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause.

  noun: Loyalist

• A colonist who sided with great britain during the american revolution

• a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.

  "Tory loyalists"

Patriot

• A colonist who wanted independence from great Britain

• an automated surface-to-air missile designed for early detection and interception of incoming missiles or aircraft.

• a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.

• The turbulent and complicated life of an intelligence officer, John Tavner, whose latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear. The assignment requires him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous non-official cover.

Revolution

• As a historical process, “revolution” refers to a movement, often violent, to overthrow an old regime and effect. complete change in the fundamental institutions of society.

• A great change

• noun. The definition of a revolution is the movement of one object around a center or another object, a forceful overthrow of a government by the people or any sudden or grand change. An example of revolution is movement of the earth around the sun.

• Fifteen years after an unknown event caused all electricity to stop working, plunging the world back into the dark ages, people have adjusted to life without planes and communication and electric lights. In small farming communities, life seems sweeter at this slower pace, but danger and mystery

Boycott

• a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

  "a boycott of the negotiations"a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

  "a boycott of the negotiations

• A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

• withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

  "we will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme"

• The refusal to buy certain items.

Parliament

• Parliament. The 616-member parliament, termed the Federal Assembly, consists of two houses, the 450-member State Duma (the lower house) and the 166-member Federation Council (the upper house). Russia's legislative body was established by the constitution approved in the December 1993 referendum.

• The highest legislature,consisting of the sovereign, House or Lords, and house of commons.

• Parliament has four main functions: legislation (making laws), representation (acting on behalf of voters and citizens), scrutiny (examining the government), and formation of government.

• In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government ...

Minutemen

• (in the period preceding and during the American Revolution) a member of a class of American militiamen who volunteered to be ready for service at a minute's notice.

• a type of three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile.

• An ordinary citizen of the colonies who was armed and trained to fight the British at a minute's notice.

• Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were also known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name