- abstain: to stay away from doing something
- accommodate: to provide for, supply with
- allegiance: the loyalty to a nation
- amalgamate: to combine into a whole
- append: to add on as a extra item
- commemorate: to celebrate the memory of
- enumerate: to count
- exalt: to make high in rank
- extort: to obtain by violence
- far-fetched: improbable
- glum: depressed
- replica: a copy
- responsive: answering or replying
- sanctuary: a place of refuge or protection
- self-seeking: selfishly ambitious
- submissive: obeying without protest
- tally: to count up
- taskmaster: one whose job is to assign work to others
- transform: to change completely in appearance or form
- upheavel: great disorder or radical change