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Chapters 1 and 2
Term | Definition |
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compatriots | fellow countrymen |
edict | official statement; law |
expound | to set forth in detail |
firmament | the sky, or heavens |
hermetically | completely sealed; airtight |
pestilential | filled with disease; contagious |
phylacteries | small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer |
pillage | to rob with open violence |
premonition | anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning |
truncheon | a police officer's stick |