US History Declaration of Independence

Jennifer M. (United States of America)
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  1. abdicate
    give up power, duties, or obligations
  2. accommodate
    have room for; hold without crowding
  3. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  4. annihilation
    destruction by obliterating something
  5. consanguinity
    relation by blood
  6. despotism
    dominance through threat of punishment and violence
  7. endeavor
    attempt by employing effort
  8. evince
    give expression to
  9. hither
    to this place
  10. impel
    urge or force to an action; constrain or motivate
  11. magnanimity
    nobility and generosity of spirit
  12. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  13. province
    the territory in an administrative district of a nation
  14. prudence
    discretion in practical affairs
  15. ravaged
    having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
  16. rectitude
    righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
  17. sufferance
    patient endurance especially of pain or distress
  18. tyranny
    government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator
  19. unalienable
    incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
  20. usurpation
    wrongfully seizing and holding by force
Created on Thu Oct 22 10:37:11 EDT 2009

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