George Rogers Clark (sad)

George Rogers Clark (sad)
his grave stone

Feb 4, 2008

I.GENERATE A LIST OF 10 VOCABULARY WORDS WITH FULL DEFINITIONS AND ORIGINAL SENTNCES THAT CAN BE ASSOCIATED EITH YOUR PERSON.

1.Surveyor- A person whose occupation is surveying. Chiefly British a person who inspects something officially for the purpose of ascertaining, condition,value,etc. The sentence is in letter H, In 1775 George Rogers Clark went as a surveyor for the Ohio Company to Kentucky.
2.
Frontiersman- A person or man that lives on a frontier or especially in sparsely settled regions.
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.Ethnicity- Background, Allegiance, or association.
4.Physique- A physical or bodily structure, appearance or development.
5.Stroke- A throb or pulsation, as the heart, or
blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of parts of the body, speech difficulties, and, if severe, loss of consciousness or death.
6.Opposition- The action of opposing, resisting, or combating. Antagonism or Hostility. A person or group of people opposing, criticizing, or protesting something, someone, or another group. Sometimes initial capital letter. The major Political party opposed to the party in power and seeking to replace it. The act of placing opposite, or the state or position of being placed opposite.
7.Foes- An enemy or a person who dislikes you or you dislike.
8.Stricken- A hit or wound by a weapon , missile. Beset or afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow: stricken areas; a stricken family. Deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions. Characterized by or showing the effects of affliction, trouble, misfortune, a mental blow, etc.: stricken features.
9.Crippling- Sometimes offensive, a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs; a lame or disabled person or animal. A person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple. Anything that is impaired or flawed.
10.Administration - A management of any office, business, or organization; direction. The function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties. The duty of an administrator. The management by an administrator of such duties. Any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers: the administration of a college.

1 comment:

Ms. Sackstein said...

good vocabulary choices... some of the words were in the assignment, I would have liked to see you select a few specific to your person.