High School
HS Unit III: Voices of Labor - Working People Organize, 1925-1930
Unit Vocabulary List
| adjourn: | break off temporarily |
| arbitration: | settling of disputes |
| assemblages: | gatherings |
| assemblages: | gatherings |
| barbaric: | uncivilized |
| canvassing: | surveying, counting |
| community of interest: | people with shared interest |
| comprised: | made up |
| conference: | discussion |
| congregated: | gathered |
| corporation house: | employer owned housing |
| curtail: | limit |
| deputed: | delegated, assigned |
| discharged: | fired |
| encroachments: | infringements, intrustions, violations |
| estate: | property |
| exploitation: | the taking advantage of; making a profit from |
| expose: | public revelation |
| forbear: | abstain, hold back |
| inception: | beginning |
| induce: | persuade, convince |
| made up: | made |
| Molly Stark: | Revolutionary War heroine, who nursed soldiers during smallpox epidemic |
| obsess: | think about something all the time |
| operative: | worker |
| oppression: | the act of keeping people down, crushing them, acting tyrannically |
| peart: | lively, cheerful |
| piety: | devotion to God |
| pique: | feeling of resentment |
| reduction: | lowering, cut |
| refrained: | held back |
| scab: | someone who breaks a strike by working or crossing a picket line |
| severe handling: | criticism |
| solicit: | encourage |
| solidarity: | unity |
| tyranny: | cruel and arbitrary use of authority |
| unorganized: | not belonging to a labor union |
| vindicate: | clear of blame |