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| a general pardon for an offense against a governement; any act of forgiveness |
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home rule dependence,subjection, colonial status |
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| self-government, political control |
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| self-evident, expressing a univerally accepted prinicple or rule |
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taken for granted questionable, dubious,controversial |
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| to adorn or embellish; to display; to publish or proclaim widely |
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broadcast, trumpet hide, conceal, cover up, bury |
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| a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior |
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| admonition, word to the wise |
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| fair, just, embodying principles of justice |
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right, reasonable, even-handed unjust, unfair, one-sided, disporportionate |
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| to free from entanglements; to remove with effort |
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disentangle, extract, disengage enmesh, entangle, involve |
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| to steal especially in a sneaky way ususally of petty amounts |
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| to mock, treat with contempt |
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scoff at, sneer, snicker at, scorn obey, honor, revere,uphold |
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tending to be troublesome;unruly, quarrelsome,contrary, unpredictable |
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refractory, recalcitrant, peevish docile, tractable, cooperative |
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| a rule of conduct or action |
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| beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome |
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salubrious, curative detrimental, deletious, pernicious |
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| bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm |
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searing, harsh, ferocious, savage bland, mild |
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| to whip, punish severely; a cause of affliction or suffereing; a source of severe punishment or criticism |
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flog, beat; bane, plague, pestilence godsend, boon, blessing |
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| funeral, typical of the tomb; extreemly gloomy or dismal |
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| doleful, lugubrious, mortuary |
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| tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; something that induces sleep |
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narcotic, anesthetic stimulating; stimulant, stimulus |
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| extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical |
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highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy lax, loose, indulgent, permissive, dissolute |
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| lasting only a short time, fleeting; one who stays only a short time |
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impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent permanent, imperishable, imoortal |
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| not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity |
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cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical manageable, easy to handle |
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dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force insipid, lifeless, colorless zesty, spicy, savory, colordful, lively |
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