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The Memories of Fifty Years;<br />

annul annals<br />

• (annals)- a record of events, esp. a yearly record, usually in chronological<br />

order,( , , ); The beginning of the<br />

17th century is an interesting epoch in American annals. — The Knight of the<br />

Golden Melice A Historical Romance;<br />

revoke > irrevocable<br />

• (irrevocable)- not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or<br />

annulled; unalterable, ( ); But the instant the step<br />

was irrevocable, the instant she had left the barrier behind, repentance set in.<br />

— East Lynne;<br />

repeal repel<br />

• (repel)- to ward off or keep away; drive back; Whatever insult is offered me,<br />

I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for myself the law shall do for<br />

me. — Life Of Johnson;<br />

boycott ~ shun = ban = banish = eschew = expel = ostracize = rusticate =<br />

relegate {demote = bump} = oust : expatriate = exile : extradition<br />

• (boycott)- to abstain from buying or using, ( ; ); We're<br />

not sure a boycott is the right way to disagree with someone politically;<br />

• (shun)- keep away from, (( ) , ); I have<br />

become completely discouraged, and am greatly in need of what I at<br />

first shunned--sympathy. — Frank on a Gun-Boat;<br />

• (ban)- ( , ); Mujib was arrested again;<br />

his party was banned, and most of his aides fled to India and organized a<br />

provisional government;<br />

• (banish)- to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative<br />

decree; condemn to exile, (( ) / / ); She<br />

and her followers were banished, and some of them, returning, put to death,<br />

1659-60. — History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6);<br />

• (eschew)- to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid: to eschew evil,<br />

( , , ); Assumptions and<br />

preconceptions must be eschewed, however plausible they may seem. — The<br />

Negro;<br />

• (expel)- to force or drive out; In the past ten years nothing has been so<br />

calculated to make people think that Hitler had some reason to expel the Jews<br />

from Germany as your statement. — The God Delusion;<br />

• (ostracize)- to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship,<br />

conversation, privileges, etc, ( , ); Denise Finkel<br />

claims that her former classmates at Oceanside High School created a

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