1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass VOCABULARY QUIZ FOR CHAPTERS 8-9

2. estate property or possessions

3. will A legal declaration by which a person provides for the distribution of his or her property at death

4. entreaties earnest request or petition; supplication

5. profligate utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute

6. desolate having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn

7. disposition state of mind regarding something; inclination

8. legitimate according to law; lawful

9. contempt the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace

10. exhorter to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings

11. sagacity ability to make good judgments