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::: ascertain - find out for certain; make certain
::: indignity - treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect; offensive or insulting treatment; humiliating or degrading treatment; Ex. I suffered the indignity of having to say that in front of them.
::: suffragist - advocate of the extension of voting rights (for women); CF. suffrage
::: tribute - tax levied by a ruler; payment made by one nation to another in acknowledgment of submission; mark of respect (such as praise or gift); Ex. pay tribute to
::: pathological - pertaining to disease; N. pathology: study of disease
::: rapacious - voracious; ravenous; taking everything one can; excessively grasping; plundering; subsisting on live prey; Ex. rapacious birds
::: apoplexy - stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too much blood in the brain
::: engulf - surround and swallow up
::: docile - obedient; easily managed; submissive
::: tarry - linger; delay in starting or going; dawdle