VP 3 Unit 1 A President's Address alla ord

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  • inaugural first, opening
  • humbled made to feel less important
  • bestow give
  • sacrifice giving up something to benefit others
  • bear endure, tolerate
  • ancestor family member who lived a long time ago
  • transition process of change
  • rising tides of increases in
  • amidst in the middle of
  • raging forceful, violent
  • high office leading position, top job
  • ideals ideas about what is right
  • forebears ancestors
  • founding documents historical papers relating to the creation of the US
  • in the midst of in the middle of
  • far-reaching having a great effect
  • hatred strong dislike
  • greed wanting more than you need
  • age period of history, era
  • shed get rid of
  • adversary enemy, opponent
  • subject to dependent on, informed by
  • sap weaken
  • nagging persistent and worrying
  • decline fall, weakening
  • inevitable impossible to avoid
  • sights ambitions, expectations
  • span of time period of time
  • unity agreement
  • discord disagreement
  • proclaim say something publicly
  • petty unimportant
  • grievance complaint
  • recriminations criticizing someone who has criticized you
  • dogma belief, principle
  • strangle stop something developing
  • Scripture the Bible
  • reaffirm state something again
  • enduring lasting
  • precious valuable
  • pursue try to achieve
  • settle for accept
  • faint-hearted not brave
  • leisure free time
  • doer an active person who achieves things
  • rugged difficult
  • worldly possessions everything you own
  • toil work hard
  • sweatshop factory with bad working conditions
  • time and again often, repeatedly
  • raw very sore, painful
  • faction minority group
  • prosperous rich and successful
  • inventive creative
  • goods objects to be sold
  • undiminished not reduced
  • stand pat remain unchanged
  • remake make again, in a different way
  • foundation basis, structure
  • electric grid network for distributing electricity
  • restore bring back, re-establish
  • wield use
  • harness control and make use of
  • soil part of the earth where plants grow
  • common general, shared
  • Founding Fathers the people who made the US a country
  • peril danger, risk
  • draft write
  • charter official document describing laws and rights
  • expedience doing what is easy rather than morally right
  • sake purpose, benefit
  • peoples nations
  • grand large, impressive
  • face down confront, stand up to
  • sturdy strong
  • alliance union, pact between countries
  • conviction belief
  • entitle someone to give someone the right to
  • emanate from come from
  • justness fairness
  • cause aim, principle
  • temper make milder, less extreme
  • humility behaving in a humble way
  • legacy something that exists as a result of a past event/action
  • forge develop, create
  • foe enemy
  • roll back reduce
  • specter an unpleasant possibility
  • waver hesitate, weaken
  • advance try to reach
  • patchwork something made up of many different parts
  • heritage inheritance, tradition
  • swill liquid waste
  • humanity sympathy towards other people
  • mutual shared
  • globe the world
  • sow create, introduce
  • judge form an opinion about
  • destroy ruin, tear down
  • deceit dishonesty, tricking people
  • silence make quiet
  • dissent strong disagreement with general opinion
  • willing agreeable, enthusiastic
  • unclench here open
  • pledge promise
  • flourish develop and be successful
  • flow run freely
  • nourish feed
  • plenty large quantities of food
  • indifference lack of interest/sympathy
  • suffering pain
  • consume use up
  • without regard to without considering
  • gratitude feeling thankful
  • Arlington a military cemetery in the US
  • guardian person who guards something
  • embody be a symbol of
  • service duty
  • inhabit live in
  • determination pursuing a goal without giving up
  • rely upon need
  • levee a wall built to stop a river flooding
  • selflessness the opposite of being selfish
  • nurture take care of
  • fair play honest behaviour, fairness
  • grudgingly not willingly
  • satisfying pleasing
  • citizenship belonging to a country
  • destiny fate
  • creed a set of beliefs
  • magnificent very impressive/beautiful
  • mall promenade, public walkway
  • remembrance memory of an event
  • huddle sit tight
  • shores edge
  • outcome final result
  • virtue good personal qualities
  • hardship pain, suffering
  • brave endure, face up to
  • grace love and kindness (of God)

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