Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass VOCABULARY QUIZ FOR CHAPTERS 8-9
estate property or possessions
will A legal declaration by which a person provides for the distribution of his or her property at death
entreaties earnest request or petition; supplication
profligate utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute
desolate having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn
disposition state of mind regarding something; inclination
legitimate according to law; lawful
contempt the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace
exhorter to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings
sagacity ability to make good judgments