The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln

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The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln
(Biography by Russell Freedman)

• gawky clumsy awkward
• repose state of rest or inactivity
• listless lifeless lacking in interest or
  energy
• animation liveliness
• defy resist oppose
• reticent reserved tending to speak little
• melancholy mournful gloomy
• omens things believed to be signs of future
  events
• paramount main most important
• crusade struggle for a cause
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The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln
(Biography by Russell Freedman)

• countenance face
• bawdy humorous, but crude
• yarns entertaining stories filled with
  exaggeration. Storytellers could said to spin
  yarns.
• hick awkward inexperienced person from the
  country
• abolitionist person who supported abolishing or
  ending, slavery in the United States
• dismemberment separation into parts division