SAT历史文献重点词汇：1821年7月4日约翰·昆西·亚当斯演讲

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　　ocabulary from "John Quincy Adams' address on July 4, 1821"

　　dominion

　　dominance or power through legal authority

　　Fellow Citizens, UNTIL within a few days before that which we have again assembled to commemorate, our fathers, the people of this Union, had constituted a portion of the British nation; a nation, renowned in arts and arms, who, from a small Island in the Atlantic ocean, had extended their dominion over considerable parts of every quarter of the globe.

　　sovereignty

　　the authority of a state to govern another state

　　Governed themselves by a race of kings, whose title to sovereignty had originally been founded on conquest, spell-bound, for a succession of ages, under that portentous system of despotism and of superstition which, in the name of the meek and humble Jesus, had been spread over the christian world, the history of this nation had, for a period of seven hundred years, from the days of the conquest till our own, exhibited a conflict almost continued, between the oppressions of power and the claims

　　portentous

　　of momentous or ominous significance

　　despotism

　　dominance through threat of punishment and violence

　　extort

　　obtain by coercion or intimidation

　　Through long ages of civil war the people of Britain had extorted from their tyrants, not acknowledgments, but grants of right.

　　amelioration

　　the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

　　How much of these two qualities, the fountains of all amelioration in the condition of men, was stifled by these two principles of subserviency to ecclesiastical usurpation, and of holding rights as the donations of kings, this is not the occasion to inquire.

　　ecclesiastical

　　of or associated with a church

　　usurpation

　　wrongfully seizing and holding by force

　　enervate

　　weaken mentally or morally

　　Of their tendency to palsy the vigor, and enervate the faculties of man, all philosophical reasoning, and all actual experience concur in testimony.

　　sophistry

　　a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving

　　It was this principle which the sophistry and rapacity of the church had obscured and obliterated, and which the intestine divisions of that same church itself first restored.

　　cloister

　　residence that is a place of religious seclusion

　　Centuries of desolating wars have succeeded, and oceans of human blood have flowed, for the final establishment of this principle; but it was from the darkness of the cloister that the first spark was emitted, and from the arches of a university that it first kindled into day.

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