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• hold office have an important job or position
• secure here achieve, succeed in getting something 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
• humbled made to feel less important
• bestow formal give
• bear (bore, borne) endure, tolerate
• ancestor family member who lived a long time ago
• rising tides of increases in
• amidst literary in the middle of
• raging forceful, violent
• high office leading position, top job
• forebears formal ancestors
• founding documents here historical papers relating to the creation of the US
• in the midst of formal in the middle of
• far-reaching having a great effect
• shed (shed, shed) get rid of
• shutter AmE close (a business)
• adversary enemy, opponent
• subject to dependent on, informed by
• sap weaken
• nagging persistent and worrying
• sights here ambitions, expectations
• span of time period of time
• discord formal disagreement
• proclaim say something publicly
• petty unimportant
• grievance complaint
• recriminations criticizing someone who has criticized you
• dogma belief, principle
• strangle here stop something developing
• Scripture a religious book or writing
• Reaffirm state something again
• Enduring lasting
• Pursue try to achieve
• settle for accept
• faint-hearted not brave
• leisure free time
• 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 successful
• inventive creative
• undiminished not reduced

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