Engelska 2/8

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• humbled made to feel less important
• bestow formal give
• bear (bore, borne) endure, tolerate
• ancestor family member who lived a long time age
• transition process of change
• rising tides of increases in
• amidst literary in the middle of
• raging forceful, violent
• high office leading position, top job
• forbears formal ancestor
• founding here historical
• documents papers relating to the creation of the US
• in the midst of formal in the middle of
• far-reaching having a great effect
• shed get rid of
• shutter ame a close (a business)
• adversary enemy, opponent
• subject to dependent on, informed by
• sap weaken
• nagging persistent and worrying
• decline fall, weakening
• sights here ambitions, expectations
• span of time period of time
• discord formal disagreement
• proclaim say something publicly
• petty unimportant
• recriminations criticizing someone who has criticized you
• dogma belief, principle
• strangle here stop something developing
• scripture the bible
• enduring lasting
• hold office have an important job or position
• secure here achieve succeed in getting something
• presidency the job, or period of being president
• prose written or spoken language in its ordinary form
• penchant formal liking, preference;tendency
• knack informal skill, ability
• inaugural first, opening
• prime of very high quality
• precious valuable
• pursue try to achieve
• settle for accept
• faint-hearted not brave
• leisure free time
• doer an active person who achieves things
• rugged literary difficult
• worldly possessions everything you own
• toil literary work hard
• sweatshop factory with bad working conditions
• time and again often, repeatedly
• raw very sore, painful
• faction minority group
• prosperous rich and succesful
• inventive creative
• goods objects to be sold
• undiminished not reduced
• stand pat ame remain unchanged
• remake make again, in a different way
• foundation here basis, structure
• electric grid network for distributing electricity
• restore bring back, re-establish
• wield use
• harness control and make use of
• swill liquid waste
• humanity sympathy towards other people
• mutual shared
• globe literary the world
• sow here create, introduce
• judge form an opinion about
• destroy ruin, tear down
• deceit dishonesty, tricking people
• silence here make quiet
• dissent strong disagreement with general opinion
• extend formal offer
• unclench here open
• pledge promise
• flourish develop and be succesful
• flow run freely
• nourish feed
• plenty formal large quantities of food
• indifference lack of interest/sympathy
• suffering pain
• consume here use up
• without regard to without considering
• arlington a military cemetery in the us
• guardian person who gards something
• embody be a symbol of
• service here duty
• inhabit literary live in
• determination pursuing a goal without giving up
• rely upon need
• levee a wall built to stop a river flooding
• selflessness the opposite of being selfish
• nurture take care of
• fair play honest behaviour, fairness
• grudgingly not willingly
• satisfying pleasing
• citizenship belonging to a country
• destiny fate
• creed formal a set of beliefs
• magnificent very impressive/ beautiful¨
• mall promenade, public walkaway
• remembrance formal memory of an event
• huddle sit tight
• shores here edge
• outcome final result
• virtue good personal qualities
• hardship pain, suffering
• brave here endure, face up to
• grace love and kindness (of god)
• soil part of the earth where plants grow
• common here general, shared
• Founding Fathers the people who made the US a country
• peril literary danger, risk
• draft write
• charter official document describing laws and rights
• expedience formal doing what is easy rather than morally right
• sake purpose, benefit
• peoples nations
• grand large, impressive
• face down confront, stand up to
• sturdy strong
• alliance union, pact between countries
• conviction belief
• entitle someone to give someone the right to
• emanate from formal come from
• justness fairness
• cause here aim, principle
• temper formal make milder, less extreme
• humility behaving in a humble way
• legacy something that exist as a result of a past event/ action
• forge develop, create
• foe literary enemy
• roll back ame reduce
• specter ame sp. an unpleasant possibility
• waver hesitate, weaken
• advance here try to reach
• patchwork something made up of many different parts
• heritage inheritance, tradition

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