Vocabulary for compehension

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1. a new ocean liner that claims to be the largest commercial vessel afloat

• a tube or canal

• a container for holding something

• a ship or large boat.

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2. Enslave people would find themselves stuffed into compartments with ceilings as low as four and a half feet

• to fill by packing things in

• special knowledge or capability

• something consumed by humans

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3. Adult men were kept separately and shackled in pairs.

• to set free

• To deprive of freedom, especially of action

• to move violently or suddenly

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4. Enslaved people were forced to relieve themselves where they sat, creating hellish conditions

• strongly repulsive

• an environmental requirement

• proper or usual state or condition

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5. We stood on the deck and watched dolphins swim near the ship.

• to spoil by a flaw

• a platform in a ship, a structural element forming the floor for its compartments

• a defect in physical structure or form

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6. The disease was rampant.

• Regulated by law

• Out of Control

• To force by imposed stricture

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7. The enslaved people generally spent about 8 hours a day above deck but were still separated by gender with a barricade.

• to hold back by force

• an obstruction or rampart threw up across a way or passage to check the advance of the enemy

• to become destroyed

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8. Women using their minuscule freedoms would often coordinate mutinies against their captors.

• freedom from civil disturbance

• To rise against or refuse to obey or observe the authority

• to gain the superiority

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9. It was necessary to throw enslaved people overboard to halt the spread of disease.

• to spread out irregularly

• to bring to a stop

• to take a very long step

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10. The U.S. abolished slavery by constitutional amendment on December 6, 1865

• To end the observance or effect of something, such as a law

• to consent to expressly or formally

• to allow especially by reason of indifference