Gettysburg Address Vocabulary

A suggestion, a statement that expresses an opinion

• Dedicate

• Proposition

• Resolve

• Conceive

To behave with dignity, showing high moral principles or ideals.

• Continent

• Devotion

• Nobly

• Endure

One of the seven large landmasses on Earth

• Portion

• Perish

• Continent

• Hallow

To honor something as holy or sacred, a synonym for consecrate

• Dedicate

• Detract

• Consecrate

• Hallow

Loyalty or enthusiasm for a cause or to a person

• Vain

• Devotion

• Dedicate

• Proposition

To make sacred or holy, or revere.

• Proposition

• Detract

• Consecrate

• Hallow

To take away, to subtract from

• Perish

• Resolve

• Detract

• Endure

useless, producing no results, pointless

• Detract

• Score

• Vain

• Perish

To decide on a course of action, to find a solution to a problem

• Resolve

• Consecrate

• Endure

• Conceive

A word for the number twenty

• Portion

• Continent

• Score

• Hallow