Word
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Definition
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abdicated
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gave up one's responsibilities,
steps down from one's position.
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Abolish
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get rid of
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absolved
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forgiven. To free from a duty
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accommodation
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something that meets someone's
needs
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acquiesce
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to give in to someone or something,
to go along with something, to accept.
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Affected
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those acted upon or influenced.
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Allegiance
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loyalty, faithfulness
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alliances
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groupings, combinations, associations.
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Alter
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to change.
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Annihilation
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destruction, getting rid of
totally, extinction
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appropriations
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when a law making body gives
money to a state, a group, an agency or when someone takes something for
oneself.
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Arbitrary
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something done completely
by individual choice than by reason or by law.
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Assent
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to agree to a proposal, to
go along with something.
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Barbarous
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being violently destructive
and cruel.
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Boundary, boundaries
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borders, lines separating
two areas
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brethren
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a religious term for brothers.
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Candid
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honest, frank
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charters
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documents that guarantee certain
rights and privileges for a group.
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Colonies
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areas or territories governed
or ruled by someone or something outside of the colony or colonies.
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Compliance
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the act of going along or
obeying the wishes, demands, laws, or regulations of someone or some ruling
group.
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Conjured
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to bring something about or
something up as if by magic.
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Commerce
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trade between groups, states
or nations.
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Consanguinity
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related by blood or common
ancestors, closely related or linked.
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Consent
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to give approval to something,
to say yes to something.
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Constitution
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the laws or rules for governing
a group, an organization, a state or a country.
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Constrains
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holds back someone from doing
something.
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Contract
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a promise enforceable by law.
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Convulsions
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violent acts of turmoil, agitation,
shaking things up.
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Denounces
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disapproves of, speaks out
against
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depository
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a place to put something away
for safekeeping.
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Deprive, depriving
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to keep something from someone,
to rob or steal from someone
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derive, deriving
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to get or obtain something,
often by reason.
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Desolation
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loneliness, loss, emptiness
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dissolutions
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meltings, undoings, endings
of something
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despotism
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absolute power by one ruler
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disavowed
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refused to recognized, denied,
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disposed
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is apt to, is likely to
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divine Providence
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related to God
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domestic
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having to do with one's home
or one's homeland or country.
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Effect
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to make something happen
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emigration
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leaving one's country to settle
in a new country or land
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endeavored
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tried or attempted to do something
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endowed
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a great given to someone
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entangle, entangling
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to twist together, to create
a mess or confusion
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erected
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to put up something
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evinces
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to show or demonstrate something
clearly
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executioners
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persons who put others to
death for real or alleged crimes.
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Formidable
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very strong, demanding, forbidding
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frontiers
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areas that have not been explored,
the borders of such areas
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fundamentally
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basically, essentially
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harass
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to annoy, bother, pester
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impel
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to move, propel
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inestimable
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invaluable, to great to be
counted or estimated
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inhabitants
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someone who lives in a place,
a resident
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institute
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to put in place
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insurrection
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the act of revolting against
authority
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invariably
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almost certainly
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judiciary
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a system of courts of law.
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Kindred
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a group of people sharing
the same ancestors, people who feel or think the same or have similar
views.
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Legislature
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a law making body of people
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mercenaries
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professional soldiers hired
by a foreign country
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merciless
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cruel, showing no mercy
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migrations
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leaving one's native land
to settle in another land
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jurisdiction
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under authority or control
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magnanimity
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the act of being generous
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naturalization
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the process of granting full
citizenship to someone
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obstructing
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getting in the way of, preventing
something from happening
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oppressions
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cruel exercises of power
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paralleled
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To run or be across from one
another without crossing, to be side by side without touching.
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Perfidy
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unfaithfulness, not being
trustworthy
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petition
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to ask for , to appeal to
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plundered
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to take wrongfully, to steal
or rob
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province
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an area of land or an area
or topic of interest
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prudence
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careful management
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quartering
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housing for officers
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ravaged
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destroyed, damaged heavily
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rectitude
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the quality of being correct
or right
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redress
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to make up for an injury or
damage done
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relinquish
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to give up something
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render
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to give or make available,
to provide
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representatives
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people who speak for a group,
usually voted on to speak for the group.
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Sufferance
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putting up with pain, suffering
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tenure
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holding something in one's
possession
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transient
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passing in time, temporary
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tyranny
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use of absolute power over
people
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unacknowledged
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not accepted or recognized
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unalienable
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not to be given or taken away
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unanimous
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everyone agrees on a matter
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undistinguished
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marked by no special quality
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usurpations
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an unlawful seizing of authority
or power
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unwarrantable
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having no justification or
reason for happening
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wholesome
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having sound health or well
being
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