"the movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle."
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endow
(v) :
to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution; to enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits
"she was endowed with a beautiful voice."
endowed
(v) :
simple past and past participle of to endow
(adj) :
pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university
feudalism
(n) :
a social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Some social-evolutionary theories hold that mankind is evolving through several stages which started with communism and will ultimately return there, have passed through classical society, feudalism, and capitalism, although these phases seem more characteristic just of Europe than elsewhere. Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources
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bourgeois
(adj) :
of or related to middle class attitudes and conventions; belonging to the middle class
sediment
(n) :
Precipitate, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water
"the Nile [[delta]] is [[composed]] of sediment that was washed down and [[deposited]] at the mouth of the river."
obscure
"I found myself in an obscure wood . ." Dante, Inferno,1,1-2
subordinated
(v) :
simple past and past participle of to subordinate
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Public Comment
on 2007-01-02 by mangal
on 2007-08-18 by ycc2106