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Nathaniel Hawthorne

My Kinsman Major Molineux

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1831

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1.       approbation (noun):

approval

“After the Kings of Great Britain had assumed the right of appointing the colonial governors, the measures of the latter seldom met with the ready and general approbation which had been paid to those of their predecessors […].”

2.     emanate (verb):

to flow or proceed forth from; to come from

“The people looked with most jealous scrutiny to the exercise of power, which did not emanate from themselves [...].”

3.     reprehension (noun):

the act of scolding or reprimanding someone

“[...] [T]hey usually rewarded the rulers with slender gratitude for the compliances, by which, in softening their instructions from beyond the sea, they had incurred the reprehension of those who gave them.”

4.     conveyance (noun):

a means or process of transportation

“It was near nine o’clock of a moonlight evening, when a boat crossed the ferry with a single passenger, who had obtained his conveyance, at that unusual hour, by the promise of an extra fare.”

5.     incontrovertible (adjective):

indisputable; not capable of being denied

“[...] [H]is stockings of blue yarn, were the incontrovertible handiwork of a mother or a sister [.

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