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| acquiescence | the act or condition of or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in) |
| aggregation | a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. |
| fey | whimsical; strange; otherworldly |
| akimbo | with hand on hip and elbow bent outward |
| subpoena | the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body |
| elucidate | to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain |
| mollified | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease |
| ex cathedra | from the seat of authority; with authority: used especially of those pronouncements of the pope that are considered infallible |
| scuppernong | a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape grown in the southern U.S. |
| yaws | an infectious, non-venereal tropical disease, primarily of children, characterized by raspberry-like eruptions of the skin and caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is closely related to the agent of syphilis |
