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abolitionist: a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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alter: cause to change, make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
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commensurate: corresponding in size or degree or extent
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disavow: refuse to acknowledge, To deny responsibility for or connection with
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discharge: release from military service, pronounce not guilty of criminal charges, the act of discharging a gun
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ebullient: overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling
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enlist: join the military, engage somebody to enter the army
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ineluctable: impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"
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jejune: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity, lacking interest or significance, lacking in nutritive value, juvenile
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magnanimous: generous and understanding and tolerant
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mawkish: effusively or insincerely emotional, Excessively and objectionably sentimental
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morose: showing a brooding ill humor, having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable
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rectify: make right or correct, set straight or right
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sphinx: (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body, an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
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suffrage: the right to vote
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suffragist: an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women), someone who campaigns for voting rights
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vitiate: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality, take away the legal force of or render ineffective, make imperfect