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Meretriciousness

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Being attractive in a cheep way

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Concomitant

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Happening at the same time as something else

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Eponymous

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Relating to

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Sanctify

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To free from sin

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Hallowed

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Holy or greatly respected

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Countenance

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A persons expression

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Historiographic

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The product of a historical writing

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Demonstrable

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Capable of showing clearly

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Onslaught

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Violent attack

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Inculcate

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To cause, to learn by rep

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Acquiesce

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To accept, allow to happen

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Gallantry

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Courageous behavior

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Secession

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Separating to become independent

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Discomforting

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Making confused or upset

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Causalities

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A thing or person affected by an event

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Chroniclers

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A person who describes events in the order they happen

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Anniversary

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An annual reference to a date

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Egalitarianism

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A social philosophy focused on the removal of inequalities

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Sesquicentennial

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150 anniversary

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Emancipation

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Process of freeing someone from someone else’s control

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Appomattox

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Location of treaty signing that ends civil war

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Vindicated

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Showing that something doubted is correct

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Benevolent

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Kind and generous

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Ennobling

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To make someone better

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Stratagem

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A plan for stopping an enemy from achieving a goal

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Gallant

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Brave or heroic

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Pantheon

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A group of people who are famous

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Magnanimous

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Being generous or kind by nature

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Proclaim

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official announcement

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Glean

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To gather information bit by bit

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Rendered

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Directing the execution of

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Alienation

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Separation of a person

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Duty

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A moral or legal obligation

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Maim

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Wound seriously

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Pious

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Falsely appearing to be good

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Blundering

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Making a mistake through stupidity

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Cranks

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A bad tempered person

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Cascade

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A large number of things that happen in a row

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Inglorious

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Causing shame

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Enslavement

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The process of being out into slavery

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Stance

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Take position on something

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Spray

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To project a liquid

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Hedonism

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Belief that pleasure and happiness is the most important thing

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Emphasis

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A stress on something

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Equivocal

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Uncertain as a indication or sign

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Orthodoxy

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A way of thinking that is seen as true

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Dismemberment

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Tearing into pieces

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Indictment

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An expression of strong disapproval

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