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Declaration Vocab
By: Alexander Nwanganga
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Perfidy | deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. |
| Despot | a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. |
| Acquiesce | accept something reluctantly but without protest. |
| Usurpations | Usurpation means taking someone's power or property by force. Locking the teacher outside of the classroom and taking charge of math class is a form of usurpation. |
| Magnanimity | The fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity. |
| Annihilate | Destroy utterly; obliterate. |
| Consanguinity | Consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person. |
| Unalienable | Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor. "freedom of religion, the most inalienable of all human rights" |
| Rectitude | Morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness |