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| to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: |
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| sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. |
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| to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal: |
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| keen insight; shrewdness: |
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| before or existing before the war, esp. American Civil War |
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| favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate. |
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| to show to be false; contradict: |
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| inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
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| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
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| trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry |
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