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