Vocabulary Lesson 19Across the Decades and

Centuries

In the Roaring Twenties, women were finally liberated from the restrictive clothing they had worn for over a century.

1910 D11. liberate (v.)

Allied soldiers liberate Paris from the Nazis on August 25, 1944.

Who or what are people trying to liberate today?

F12. notify (v.)

Starting in the 1840s, people were notified of important news with a Morse code telegraph.

By the early 1900s, people were being notified by telephone.

How do we notify people

today?

E13. access (n., v.)

As recently as the 1990’s, if people wanted to gain access (n.) to information, they needed to access (v.) reference books like encyclopedias at a library.

How do we access information today?

J14. pleasantry (n.)

Exchanging pleasantries never really changes.

With whom do you often exchange

pleasantries?

A15. provision (n.)

Food provisions recommended for each person traveling West in a covered

wagon in 1850.200 pounds of flour 30

pounds of hardtack 75 pounds of bacon 10 pounds of rice 5 pounds of coffee 2 pounds of tea 25 pounds of sugar ½ bushel of dried beans 1 bushel of dried fruit 2 pounds of baking soda 10 pounds of salt ½ bushel of corn meal ½ bushel of corn, parched and ground 1 small keg of vinegar

Y2K provisions stockpiled by someone concerned that computer programmers had not made provisions for dates after 1999.

What provisions would you want to make sure are in your family’s emergency supplies?

I16. circumnavigate (v.)

Magellan was first to circumnavigate the world.

Reporter Nellie Bly set a record for circumnavi-gation in 1890. She traveled by steamboat and train.

In 1933, Wiley Post became the first to circumnavigate the world solo in a plane. It took him 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes.

If you could circumnavigate the

world, by what means would you

like to travel?

C17. regime (n.)

American colonists in the 1770s found King

George’s regime to be intolerable, leading to the

Revolutionary War.

Americans in the 1950s saw Stalin’s Soviet regime as hostile and oppressive, leading to the Cold War.

On what regimes do Americans

not look favorably today?

B18. accommodation (n.)

Colleges rarelymade accommodations for people with handicapsin those eras.

early-1900s college dorm accommodations

194

0s

1960s

1970s

What do you want to take to college to make

your dorm accommodations more pleasant?

H19. remorse (n.)

Months like these indicate remorse for the way some groups were treated in the

past.

Is there another group that we

should honor with a month?

G20. evacuate (v.)

When Mt. Vesuvius erupted without warning in 79 A.D., nearly 20,000 people who were unable or too frightened to evacuate Pompeii and two other towns were killed. Buried in tons of ash that turned to natural concrete, the towns were not found until 1748.

The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston, Texas class 4 hurricane. Because residents were not warned in time to evacuate, nearly 8,000 people died.

We all evacuate the school during fire drills, but have you ever had to evacuate

another place?