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DEPOSITORY - a place to put something for safekeeping
DEPRIVE - to keep something from someone DERIVE - to receive or obtain
DESOLATION - loneliness, loss, emptiness DICTATE - to command or order
DISSOLUTION - formal dismissal of an assembly or legislature
DESPOTISM - absolute, unlimited power by one ruler
DISAVOW - to refuse to recognize, to deny DISPOSED - to make fit or prepared
DIVINE PROVIDENCE - related to God DOMESTIC - having to do with one’s home, homeland or country
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EFFECT - to make something happen EMIGRATION - to leave one’s country to settle
in another
ENDEAVORED - tried or attempted to do something ENDOWED - to give, to equip, to provide ENGROSS - to write in a large, clear hand ENTANGLE - to twist together, to create confusion ERECTED - to construct or put up something ESTABLISH - to set up on a firm basis
EVINCES - to show or demonstrate something clearly
EVOLUTION - the process of something developing, changing
EXECUTIONERS - persons who put other people to death legally
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FAIR COPY - a written or printed document after the final corrections have been added
FORBIDDEN - to refuse to allow
FORMIDABLE - arousing fear, dread or alarm FREEDOM - to be free to act or speak without outside constraints
FRONTIERS - territory that has not been explored or settled
FUNDAMENTALLY - basically, essentially
G
GOVERNED - people who are citizens of a particular government
H
HARASS - to annoy, to bother, to pester
HITHER - to or toward this place
HOUSE OF BURGESSES - the elected legislative assembly in colonial Virginia
HUZZAH - a cheer, expression of triumph
I
IMPEL - to force
INDEPENDENT/ INDEPENDENCE - free from the influence, guidance or control of others
INDIGO - a plant used to make a blue-violet dye INESTIMABLE - priceless
INEVITABLE - impossible to avoid or prevent INHABITANTS - someone who lives in a place, a resident
INSTITUTE - to establish, organize, set-in operation INSURRECTION - the act of revolting against authority
INVARIABLY - not changing or subject to change
J
JUDICIARY - a system of courts of law for the administration of justice
JUSTICE - the quality of being just or fair JURISDICTION - the official power to make legal decisions and judgments
K
KINDRED - people who share the same ancestors, have similar views
L
LAWS OF NATURE - laws for human conduct and to control the universe/nature that were established by God
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