J Tremain Vocab 6-7, Salt Water Tea - Fiddler's Bill
  • 1. future generations collectively, all the descendants of one person
A) posterity
B) treason
C) oratory
D) grievance
  • 2. a violation of allegiance to one’s country, especially by acting to overthrow the government
A) treason
B) divulge
C) contradict
D) yokel
  • 3. to disclose or reveal a secret
A) divulge
B) grievance
C) posterity
D) tyranny
  • 4. a wrong considered grounds for complaint
A) oppression
B) grievance
C) treason
D) contradict
  • 5. the exercise of authority or power in a cruel or unjust manner
A) oratory
B) oppression
C) yokel
D) contradict
  • 6. the art of public speaking
A) posterity
B) grievance
C) divulge
D) oratory
  • 7. oppressive or unjust government, unrestrained exercise of power
A) treason
B) divulge
C) tyranny
D) grievance
  • 8. to assert the contrary of, to imply a denial of
A) yokel
B) oratory
C) contradict
D) divulge
  • 9. a country bumpkin
A) grievance
B) treason
C) posterity
D) yokel
  • 10. to send off in various directions, scatter
A) oppression
B) disperse
C) tyranny
D) divulge
  • 11. Every Friend to his Country, to Himself, and to __________________, or descendants, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil Hall, at nine o’clock.
A) yokel
B) posterity
C) grievance
D) disperse
  • 12. He hoped Cilla would ______________, or disagree with, him, but she did not.
A) grievance
B) oppression
C) divulge
D) contradict
  • 13. They were so close to _________________, or sedition, they kept no list of members.
A) treason
B) oratory
C) posterity
D) contradict
  • 14. It happened they were there when the sheriff arrived and bade the meeting forthwith to ____________________, or break up.
A) disperse
B) grievance
C) oratory
D) tyranny
  • 15. England had, by the fall of 1773, gone far in adjusting the _________________________, or complaints, of her American colonies.
A) contradicts
B) yokels
C) grievances
D) divulges
  • 16. After all, thought Parliament, the Americans were __________________, or backwards, and farmers-not political thinkers.
A) yokels
B) disperses
C) grievances
D) contradicts
  • 17. Swear by the great name of God Himself never, for as long as you live, to ______________________, or reveal, to anyone the secret matters now trusted to you.
A) contradict
B) tyranny
C) divulge
D) oratory
  • 18. This closing of the port of Boston was indeed _____________________, this was oppression; this was the last straw upon the back on many a moderate man.
A) posterity
B) grievance
C) disperse
D) tyranny
  • 19. This closing of the port of Boston was indeed tyranny, this was ________________________, or persecution; this was the last straw upon the back on many a moderate man.
A) divulge
B) treason
C) yokel
D) oppression
  • 20. He did not stop the flood of treasonable ___________________, or speech, which poured forth from men like Warren and Quincy.
A) tyranny
B) oppression
C) contradict
D) oratory
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