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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
A plan for stopping an enemy from achieving a goal
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Gallant
Brave or heroic
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Pantheon
A group of people who are famous
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Magnanimous
Being generous or kind by nature
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Proclaim
official announcement
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Glean
To gather information bit by bit
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Rendered
Directing the execution of
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Alienation
Separation of a person
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Duty
A moral or legal obligation
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Maim
Wound seriously
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Pious
Falsely appearing to be good
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Blundering
Making a mistake through stupidity
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Cranks
A bad tempered person
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Cascade
A large number of things that happen in a row
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Inglorious
Causing shame
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Enslavement
The process of being out into slavery
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Stance
Take position on something
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Spray
To project a liquid
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Hedonism
Belief that pleasure and happiness is the most important thing
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Emphasis
A stress on something
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Equivocal
Uncertain as a indication or sign
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Orthodoxy
A way of thinking that is seen as true
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Dismemberment
Tearing into pieces
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Indictment
An expression of strong disapproval