Quizlet Unit 4 Vocab.

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  1. alderman: A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
  2. antediluvian: Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
  3. bibliography: A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
  4. brigadier: General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
  5. Canaanite: A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine
  6. cat-o-nine-tails: An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
  7. coalescence: The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
  8. commissariat: The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
  9. dissuasion: The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
  10. dogmatize: To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
  11. epithet: Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
  12. extradition: The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
  13. foreground: That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
  14. gendarme: In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
  15. harbinger: One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
  16. immortalize: To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
  17. incoherence: Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
  18. irreverence: The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
  19. parentage: The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
  20. zeitgeist: The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.