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Nationalism goodman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aptly | unusually fitted or qualified |
| prithee | used to express a wish or request |
| tarry | to linger in expectation |
| ‘twixt | between |
| smote | past tense of to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or an implement held in the hand |
| boughs | a branch of a tree |
| crook | an implement having a bent or hooked form |
| abashed | to destroy the self possession or self confidence of |
| thither | being on the other and farther side |
| constable | a high officer of a royal court or noble household especially in the Middle Ages |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| catechism | a set of formal questions put as a test |
| consorting | to keep company |
| forsooth | often used to imply contempt or doubt |
| smallage | wild celery |
| cinquefoil | a design enclosed by five joined foils |
| bane | bone |
| athwart | in opposition to |
| firmament | the vault or arch of the sky |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer |
| brandishing | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer |
| festoon | a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| visages | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| anathema | one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority |
| fervid | very hot |
| profusion | lavish expenditure |
| Trotskyists | Marxist/communists |
| denigrating | to attack the reputation of |
| jingoism | to attack the reputation of |
| russophiles | the love of Russians |
| pacifist | strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| retort | to make a reply to |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| predilection | an established preference of something |
| anglophobe | a person who is averse to or dislikes England and things English |
| incongruous | inconsistent within itself, lacking congruity |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| masochism | a sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation especially by a love object, pleasure in being dominated |
| equivocal | uncertain as an indication or sign |
| derisive | expressing laughter or ridicule |
| monomania | mental illness especially when limited in expression to one idea or area of thought |
| hitherto | up to this or that time |
| follies | lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight |
| inoculation | the introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies |
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