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Lincoln
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| despotic | like a tyrant |
| chattel | a moveable item of personal property |
| cipher | code |
| slouching | drooping |
| censure | strong disapproval |
| gaunt | thin and bony |
| droll | comic |
| habeas corpus | an imprisoned person's right to a court hearing |
| anecdote | a brief story |
| Union Pacific | railroad company |
| cashiered | fired |
| trimmer | a waverer or flip-flopper |
| abolitionist | an opponent of slavery |
| raillery | teasing |
| Job | an Old Testament figure |
| Diogenes | Greek thinker |
| narrative | a story |
| crepe | black, mourning cloth |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Sandburg | poet and biographer |
| circumspect | cautious; discrete |