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sustenance   means of sustaining life; nourishment; means of livlihood  
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sagamore   a subordinate chief among the Algonquins of North America  
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amenable   ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield  
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peremptory   leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative  
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alchemy   a pseudoscientific forerunning of chemistry in medieval times  
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sojourn   a temperary stay  
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efficacy   effectiveness  
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requital   something given or done as repayment, reward, punishment in return  
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expostulation   earnest and kindly protest  
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infamy   condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act  
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retribution   something justly deserved;recompense  
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lurid   causing shock or horror; gruesome  
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vivify   to make for lively  
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inscrutable   difficult to fathom or understand  
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assimilate   to absorb (a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture  
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fain   happily; gladly; obliged or required  
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pregenitor   a direct ancestor  
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emolument   payment for an office or employment; compensation  
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escetic   a person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere slef-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion  
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succor   assistance in time of distress; relief  
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martyr   one who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause or principle  
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contumacious   obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate  
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sanctify   to make holy; purify  
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aver   to assert formally as a fact; to justify or prove  
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avow   to acknoqledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly; confess  
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