emancipation
freedom from bondage
fortitude
heartiness, willingness to persevere
disenfranchising
taking away the right to vote from a person or group
vilification
extreme abuse
inundated
completely filled with or overwhelmed with
apologist
someone who speaks or writes in defense of something/someone controversial
caprice
a whim, a fancy
paucity
scarcity
indolent
lazy
anachronistic
something chronologically out of place, such as rock music being played in a movie set in the Middle Ages
appropriation
the taking or use of something which one does not have standing to take or use
redounds
rebounds or reflects
swaths
large territories destroyed by something
sanctimonious
boasting a superficial sense of superior rightness and piety
linchpin
a single thing that holds together different parts
disparities
marked differences between entitites
capitulation
giving in to something or someone
euphemism
the verbal/written substitution of something inoffensive for something offensive
homogeneous
all of the same kind, as of a population or neighborhood
epiphany
a moment of sudden realization
