Glossary
- acquire
- To get.
- address
- To speak to a person or a group.
- advantageous
- Something that gives one advantages.
- assumptions
- Ideas that are accepted as truth without proof.
- cartographer
- Mapmaker.
- dismemberment
- The act of tearing something apart.
- dispute
- Argument.
- engraved
- Carved.
- experience
- Participation in events leading to knowledge.
- flee
- To run away.
- fleurs-de-lys
- An iris flower that symbolizes the kings of France.
- foretell
- To predict.
- Gothic
- A European style from the Middle Ages.
- harangue
- A long, loud speech that is usually critical.
- interval
- Amount of time between two events.
- nonviolence or non-violence
- Calling for government change peacefully and without violence.
- oration
- A formal speech.
- ordination
- The ceremony in which a person becomes a priest or minister.
- radical
- Extremely unusual.
- revolutionary
- Person who supports significant political or social change.
- self-sufficient
- Able to take care of one's own needs without help.
- withstand
- To resist, oppose.
- youth
- Young person or people.