The Story of America: Essays on Origins Glossary

by Jill Lepore

The Story of America: Essays on Origins Glossary

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Interlocutors

People who take part in a discourse

Repungnance

Dislike, disgust

Abatement

Deduction of tax

Embitters

Angers, dissatisfy

Trilithon

When two big vertical stones support and hold one horizontal stone it's called trilithon

Occulted

Stashed, planted, shrouded

Perspicacious

Judicious, sensitive, insightful

Muliebrity

Womanly quality

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