Obama's speech vocabulary

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• inaugural first, opening
• humbled made to feel less important
• bestow give (formal)
• rising tides of increases in
• amidst in the middle of
• raging violent
• high office leading position
• ideals ideas about what is right
• forebears ancestors (formal)
• founding documents historical papers relating to the creation of the US
• in the midst of in the middle of (formal)
• far-reaching having a great effect
• shed (shed, shed) get rid of
• adversary enemy, opponet
• inevitable impossible to avoid
• unity agreement
• span of time period of time
• discord disagreement
• proclaim say something publicly
• petty unimportant
• grievance complaint
• recriminations criticising someone who has criticised you
• dogma belief, principle
• strangle stop something developing
• scripture the Bible
• enduring lasting
• precious valuable
• settle for accept
• faint-hearted not brave
• rugged difficult
• toil work hard
• sweatshop factory with bad working conditions
• prosperous rich and successful
• inventive creative
• undiminished not reduced
• stand pat remain unchanged
• electric grid network for distributing electricity
• harness control and make use of
• alliance union, between countries
• conviction belief
• forge develop
• emanate from come from
• patchwork something made up of many different parts
• deceit dishonesty
• dissent strong disagreement with general opinion
• borne buren
• greed girighet
• shuttured stängd
• profound djupgående
• reaffirm på nytt bekräfta
• leisure ledighet, fritid
• riches rikedom
• obscure dölja
• labor arbete
• swift snabb, rask
• commerce handel
• wield svinga, utöva
• soil mark, jord
• stale unken, gammal
• wage lön
• dignified värdig, fin
• unmatched ojämförlig
• prosper blomstra
• perils faror
• scarcely knappt, knappast
• charter kontrakt
• expedience egennytta
• sturdy kraftig, robust
• prudent eftertänksam, klok
• ushering invigning

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