| Term | Definition |
|---|
| affirm | assert |
| avarice | greed |
| courser | horse |
| devotee | ardent supporter |
| dossier | collection of documents giving detailed report |
| exonerate | declare blameless |
| franchise | right ganted by a government or a company |
| herald | announce |
| instantaneous | immediate |
| marathon | prolonged |
| mettle | spirit |
| predicament | trying situation |
| sanctimonious | falsely pious |
| stevedore | dockworker |
| throng | crowd of people |
| unremitting | unending |
| annuity | fixed yearly payment |
| bedeviled | tormented |
| decorum | correctness and good taste |
| divers | various |
| diverse | different |
| elemental | having to do with great forces of nature |
| extant | still in existance |
| germinate | begin to develop |
| heterogeneous | dissimilar |
| jettison | throw overboard |
| melodrama | unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated |
| ocular | eye |
| partiality | liking |
| recession | moving backward |
| sojourn | stay |
| stickler | person who makes strict demands |
| travesty | crude and mocking imitation |
| vendetta | feud |
| franchise | right to vote |
| marathon | footrace of about 26 miles |
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