APUSH
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- to recant solemnly: repudiate, to renounce an oath: forswear
- abjure
- to abolish or annul by authority; nullify
- abrogate
- consuming food and drink in moderation, restricted to bare necessities
- abstemious
- accuracy and quickness of judgment: keen insight
- acumen
- belonging to a period before hte American Civil War
- antebellum
- falling off or shed at a specific season or state of growth, as leaves or antlers, shedding foliage at the end of the growing season, temporary: impermanent
- deciduous
- having an injurious effect: harmful
- deleterious
- hesitant to assert oneself from a lack of self-confidence: timid
- diffident
- to deprive of vitality: weaken
- enervate
- to endow with the rights of citizenship, esp. the right to vote, to free, as from bondage
- enfranchise
- a revelatory manifestation of a divine being, a sudden manifestation of the meaning or essence of something, a sudden intuitive realization or perception of reality
- epiphany
- either of two points on the celestial sphere where hte ecliptic intersects the celestial equator, either of two times during hte year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and the length of day and night are approximately equal
- equinox
- the wallaroo; european currency
- euro
- accompanied by favorable circumstances: propitious, successful: prosperous
- auspicious
- to picture falsely: misrepresent, to show to be false, to disappoint of leave unfulfilled, to tell lies about
- belie
- pugnacious: warlike
- bellicose
- deception by trickery, a trick: subterfuge
- chicanery
- a dna-containing linear body of cell nuclei of plants and animals responsible for determination and transmission of hereditary traits
- chromosome
- vulgar, difficult to work with: intractable
- churlish
- use of indirect or wordy language, written or spoken evasion, a roundabout expression
- circumlocution
- to sail completely around
- circumnavigate
- expurgate prudishly
- bowdlerize