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  1. commandeer
    take arbitrarily or by force
    On October 14, 1783, a week after his pub date, Webster commandeered the front page of The Courant.
  2. blurb
    a promotional statement, as on the dust jacket of a book
    Under a blurb—which he wrote himself—signed by several Connecticut luminaries including its secretary of State and the major general of its militia—Webster wrote a long essay in which he argued that his textbook was instrumental to the future succe
  3. vilify
    spread negative information about
    When an anonymous critic using a variety of pseudonyms kept vilifying him in print, Webster responded gleefully: “But under whatever shape or name my enemies are introduced to notice, they will answer all my purposes if they will rail at the Instit
Created on Thu Oct 20 14:55:39 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Oct 20 14:57:20 EDT 2011)

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