Vocabulary Development: Women Leaders Unit 4
Lady Deborah Moody
Nouns / Verbs / Othersauthority / arrange/-ing / daring
ceremony / baptize/-d / chief
coast / board/-ed / eager
deed / drive / harsh
faiths / grant/-ed/-ing / horrified
green
lots / land/-ed / rich
manor / pass/-ed / unsettled
mayor / recognize / as well as
mouth / regulate / quite
Puritan / rule / smoothly
riverbank / treat/-ed
settlement / won
stockade / worship
terms
tract
wonder
Women Leaders Unit 4
Lady Deborah Moody
Sentence Practice
Directions: From the list on the previous page, fill in the blanks with the word that has the same meaning as the underlined word(s) in the sentence. Pay attention to the part-of-speech of the word.
1. “A town of my own,” said Lady Deborah Moody, smiling in a sort of surprise or amazement. (n. ______)
2. The Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, William Kieft, looked at the woman who was excited or motivated to do something.
(adj. ______)
3. I am sure I can develop a good relationship [come to (n. ______)] with the Indians.
4. Her husband had died a few years earlier, and she was a wealthy woman with a very big house with a large area of land around it. (n. ______)
5. She also thought of herself as a member of a religion with many strict rules. (n. ______)
6. Deborah and her son, Harry got onto a ship to go to the New World.
(v. ______)
7. They arrived by boat in Boston. (v. ______)
8. Her ideas of being a good Puritan were very different from the ideas of others. (adv. ______)
9. Harry had not yet been made a Christian.
(v./adj. ______)
10. Lady Deborah thought the special religious celebration could wait.
(n. ______)
11. Lady Deborah felt great dislike for (was ______by) the very strict, unkind rules of the Puritans.
(adj.)
12. Lady Deborah felt great dislike for the very strict, unkind ways the Puritans behaved toward people.
(adj. ______)
13. Lady Deborah felt great dislike for the strict, unkind ways the Puritans behaved toward people. (v. ______)
14. The Puritans were very strict and unkind toward people of other religious beliefs. (n. ______)
15. She was not happy about the laws they approved.
(v. ______)
16. They approved laws to control almost every minute of life.
(v. ______)
17. Lady Deborah and her friends took a small ship and sailed along the New England seashore. (n. ______)
18. They came to a place where people have homes.
(n. ______)
19. This place was on an island near where the Hudson River flows into the ocean (n. the ______of the river)
20. In New Amsterdam, some English people lived there in addition to people from other countries. (conj. ______)
21. Lady Deborah and an Englishman stopped at the land next to the river. (n. ______)
22. The area, called Brooklyn by the Dutch, had land with fertile soil (land good for growing things).
(adj. ______land)
23. The area, called Brooklyn by the Dutch, had fertile land, and the land was far from people or homes.
(adj. ______)
24. Lady Deborah thought the idea of starting a town herself was risky and required a lot of courage.
(adj. a ______idea)
25. A few days later, the governor was handing Deborah the legal paper showing ownership of the land.
(n. ______)
26. She was the legal owner of a large area of land on the tip of Long Island. (n. ______)
27. Governor William Kieft gave Deborah Moody permission to start a town there. (v. ______).
28. She planned her town with a grassy area in the center. (n. ______)
29. Around the grassy area, were small pieces of land for houses. (n. ______)
30. She was giving small pieces of land to friends from Boston.
(v. ______)
31. She was making plans for people to start building homes.
(v. ______)
32. Not everything happened without difficulty.
(adv. ______)
33. The Long Island Indians did try to force out Lady Deborah and her friends. (v. to ______them away)
34. Finally, there was a town with houses, and there was
a jail (n. ______).
35. There was also a meeting-house where people of many faiths could honor and praise God (v. ______).
36. A new Dutch governor came to govern New Amsterdam.
(v. ______)
37. Governor Stuyvesant was horrified to find a woman as the highest ranking, most important (adj. ______) person in charge of the town of Gravesend.
38. Governor Stuyvesant was horrified to find a woman as the highest ranking, most important person in charge there.
(n. ______)
39. But soon Lady Deborah got Peter Stuyvesant's respect.
(v. ______)
40. Gravesend is still part of Brooklyn, but Lady Deborah would not be able to identify it as a place that she had previously known. (v. ______it today.)
41. But the spirit of freedom is still there, just as America’s first woman elected town leader would have wished. (n. ______)