Mere Vocabulary

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Succorless

Being without help in a desperate situation

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Lamentable

very disappointing

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Entreated

to beg

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Afflictions

Something that causes pain

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Plunder

to steal something by using force

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Melancholy

a state of sadness

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Decrepit

worn out

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Fain

happy

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Abate

to decrease in amount, degree, or intensity

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Contrivance

a plan or a trick

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Omnipotent

able to do everything; to know everything

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Abhors

to hate something because it's morally wrong

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Abominable

extremely bad or unpleasant

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Ascribed

to claim the source or the cause of something

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Induce

to make someone do something unwise

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Apprehension

fear of what's going to happen in the future

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Alleviate

to lessen a pain, sorrow, etc.

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Interspersed

placed among other things

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Commodious

spacious

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Consternation

confusion caused by shock or fear

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Improvident

careless about planning for the future

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Avarice

greed

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Rouge

red powder that women put on their cheek

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Copious

abundant

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Pestilential

extremely harmful

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Fetters

to chain

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Scruple

a doubt due to morality

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Arduous

requiring a lot of energy

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Rectitude

behavior that is morally right

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Facilitate

to make something easier

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Subsequent

following

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Eradicate

to destroy

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Precept

a rule of behavior

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Trifling

unimportant

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Venery

the pursuit of sexual satisfaction

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Unremitting

constant

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Solace

comfort

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Insidious

sly

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Martial

warlike

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Supplication

plea

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Avert

to prevent or to change direction

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Spurned

denied

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Inviolate

uncorrupted, unstained, pure

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Adversary

opposer

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Vigilant

cautious observant

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Inevitable

unavoidable

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Formidable

very powerful

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Remonstrated

disapproved

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Delusive

imaginary, misleading

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Base

dishonorable

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Infidel

someone who does not believe in the right religion; someone who does not believe in the same religion as the one using the word

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Tories

loyalists

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Whigs

the patriots in the Revolutionary War

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Ardor

intense passion

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Sottish

stupid due to being drunk

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Chastise

to harshly criticize or punish

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Hessians

German troops who allied with Britain

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Precipitate

abrupt

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Celestial

relating to heaven

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Dominion

reign

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Tyranny

a type of government ruled by a single all-powerful leader

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Impious

disrespectful to God; not religious

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Pretense

a false statement

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Ravage

ruin

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Relinquished

surrendered

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Perseverance

determination to keep trying to do something until success is achieved

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Consolation

comfort received when something bad happens

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Prudence

careful judgment

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Eloquence

powerful and influential speech

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Transient

lasting in a short period of time

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Constrains

to make someone do something

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Expunge

to remove

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Candid

to be very honest

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Abdicated

given up power

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Magnanimity

the quality of being generous

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Acquiesce

to agree to do something without complaints

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Renounce

to stop trying, to give up

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Reprobating

disapproving

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Censures

severe criticism

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Complaisance

willingness to agree with others' ideas

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Usurpation

the act of taking someone's power away

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Evinces

to display something clearly

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Despotism

rule by tyranny

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Inestimable

too much to be calculated

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Endeavored

tried really hard

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Perify

lie, treachery

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Opprobrium

a dishonorable behavior

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Redress

action of correcting something wrong and unfair

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Consanguinity

bloodline

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Inalienable

not able to be taken away

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Denounce

to announce; a disapproval or rejection; to accuse

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Engrossed

written in the final draft; completely absorbed in or by

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Impunity

exemption from being punished

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Foment

to arouse

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Vassals

servants

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Convenant

an agreement

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Remuneration

payment

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Apostolic

relating to the Pope

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Prerogative

an exceptional right or privilege

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Disfranchisement

act of taking away someone's right; to deprive or exclude