Road to Freedom Vocabulary

What does the word stumble mean?

• to hug

• to trip or lose one's balance in walking or running

• a wagon

What does the word stuttered mean?

• to fall down suddenly and quickly

• to whisper

• to make a high, gentle sound

• in speech, to stumble or repeat the beginning sounds of some words

What does the word tumbled mean?

• to fall down suddenly and quickly

• to make a gentle, high sound

• to bend your body forward and down so that your back is rounded

What does the word hunched mean?

• a large vehicle with 4 wheels that is pulled by a horse and that carries people

• to bend your body forward and down so that your back is rounded

• to take and hold as a prisoner especially by using force

What does the word capturing mean?

• to drop suddenly

• a raised area on the skin that contains clear liquid and that is caused by injury to the skin

• to take and hold as prisoner especially by using force

What does the word lantern mean?

• a light that usually has a glass covering and that can be carried by a handle

• placed or found far apart

• a slow and gradual movement from one place to another

What does the word scattered mean?

• a slow and gradual movement from one place to another

• placed or found far apart

What does the word auction mean?

• the empty room at the very top level of a house

• a public sale at which things are sold to the people who offer the most money

• a slow and gradual movement from one place to another

What is a synonym for the word chariot?

• carriage, wagon

• bus, car

• horse, zebra

What is a slave-catcher? What is their job?

• a person who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive enslaved person to their master

• an enslaved person

• Harriet Tubman