Ransom of Red Chief Vocabulary Review

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Ransom of Red Chief Vocabulary Review

• Hold up the appropriate letter for your answer.

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a sculpture in which figures are carved in a flat
surface so that they project only a little from
the background

• Apparition
• Bas-relief
• Comply
• Diatribe

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to act in accordance to be formally polite

1. Diatribe
2. Proposition
3. Comply
4. undeleleterious

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a wearing away to rub a bitter, abusive
criticism or denunciation

1. Apparition
2. Reconnoiter
3. Commend
4. diatribe

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setting forth offering

1. Proposition
2. Cauterize
3. Decry
4. commend

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harmless

1. Undeleterious
2. Ransom
3. Impudent
4. comply

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anything that appears unexpectedly or in an
extraordinary way a strange figure appearing
suddenly and though to be a ghost

1. Collaborate
2. Apparition
3. Proposition
4. depredation

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to seek information about an enemys whereabouts

1. Ransom
2. Provisions
3. Decry
4. reconnoiter

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without thought of the consequences lacking
judgment or caution

1. Impudent
2. Bas-relief
3. Diatribe
4. depredation

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to work together in some undertaking to
cooperate

1. Commend
2. Collaborate
3. Comply
4. cauterize

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the act or an instance of robbing, plundering, or
laying waste

1. Depredation
2. Decry
3. Undeleterious
4. proposition

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to mention as worthy of attention to entrust to
express approval of

1. Comply
2. Diatribe
3. Commend
4. collaborate

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the redeeming or release of a captive or of
seized property by payment of money or compliance
with other demands the price paid or demanded

1. Apparition
2. Ransom
3. Impudent
4. provision

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to burn with a hot iron or needle or with a
caustic substance, so as to destroy dead or
unwanted tissue, prevent the spread of infection

1. Cauterize
2. Decry
3. Depredation
4. commend

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providing, preparing, or supplying something to
supply with a stock of food

1. Proposition
2. Bas-relief
3. Reconnoiter
4. provisions

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to speak out against strongly and openly

1. Ransom
2. Impudent
3. Depredation
4. decry