The Origins of Thanksgiving for ESL

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• fleeing running away from, escaping
• prospered do well, live well
• frivolous not serious
• morality belief system
• backers financial supporters
• damp wet
• sighted seen
• harbor protected area on the coast
• threat a danger
• devastating extremely difficult
• interfering preventing, making difficult
• voyages travels
• sap the juice of the maple tree
• poisonous food or liquid dangerous to the health
• mounds raising of the earth made of dirt by hand
• decaying rotting
• cured cooked by smoke in order to keep meat a long time
• wilderness uncivilized country
• crops cultivated vegetables such as corn, wheat, etc.
• beaten the odds won something that was very difficult or against somebody
• proclaimed declared, named
• colonists original settlers who came to the North America
• braves Indian warrior
• musket type of gun or rifle used during that period in history
• bountiful a lot of
• newcomers people who have recently arrived
• fasting not eating
• thereafter after that
• harvest collection of the crops
• designating appointing, naming

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