Women Reformers Vocabulary

"I didn't know if that was more _____ because I was black or if that was standard practice." (Parks 12)

• discrimination

• racket

• shirk

• true

"I could be _______ or beaten. I could be arrested." (Parks 7)

• hugged

• shirked

• manhandled

• jumped

"I was to _____ faithfully the experiences I underwent, and when once within the walls of the asylum to find out and describe it's inside workings, which are always, so effectually hidden . . . from the knowledge of the public." (Bly 2)

• remember

• chronicle

• hide

• conceal

"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unforutnate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to _____ any of the disagreeable results that should follow." (Bly 9)

• attend to

• obey

• observe

• shirk

"Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall _____ their priviledges or immunities." (Anthony 8)

• conflict

• opposite

• abridge

• converse

"It is not a republic. It is an _____ aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy..." (Anthony 6)

• odious

• attractive

• pleasant

• smelly

"Well, children, where there is so much _____ there must be something out of kilter." (Truth 1)

• order

• calmness

• racket

• agreement

"_______ to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say." (Truth 6)

• Freedom

• Delay

• Curses

• Obliged

"The _____ are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them." (Yousafzai 8)

• engineers

• patriots

• pirates

• extremists

"Why are the _____ against education?" (Yousafzai 8)

• colleges

• Taliban

• teachers

• presidents