A | B |
accusation | a charge of wrongdoing |
affliction | great suffering |
banished | to drive out or remove from a home |
bequeath | to give or leave by will |
convention | a rule of conduct or behavior |
defiant | willingness to fight |
exonerate | to clear from accusation of blame |
harassment | to create and unpleasant or hostile situation for |
heretic | one who dissents from an accepted belief |
hysteria | behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear |
indentured | to bind (as an apprentice) |
indendent | not looking to others for one's opinions or for guidance in conduct |
Quaker | a member of a Christian sect that stresses Inner Light and opposes war |
pacifist | strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war |
persecution | the condition of being harassed or annoyed |
revolutionary | tending to or promoting revolution |
scorn | open dislike and disrespect |
superstition | a belief or practice resulting from ignorance |
tolerance | sympathy for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own |
tyranny | oppressive power |
unrepentant | not showing sorrow or regret for misdeeds |
witch-hunt | the searching out and deliberate harassment of those with unpopular views |
liberty | the quality or state of being free |
right | the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled |
sacrifice | something given up or los |
enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to ac |
preservation | to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction |