Declaration of Independence Vocabulary

to provide with a quality, ability, or asset

• despotism
• impel
• relinquish
• endowed

the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way

• usurpation
• inestimable
• consanguinity
• despotism

taking someone's power or property by force; unjust uses of power

• usurpation
• despotism
• unwarrantable jurisdiction
• perfidy

to voluntarily cease to keep or to claim; to give up

• impel
• render
• perfidy
• relinquish

to great to calculate; priceless

• endowed
• inestimable
• consanguinity
• perfidy

violation of trust, untrustworthiness

• perfidy
• annihilation
• consanguinity
• rectitude

blood relation, originating from the same ancestor

• rectitude
• endowed
• inestimable
• consanguinity

morally correct behavior or thinking, rightness

• tenure
• redress
• rectitude
• annihilation

a violent uprising against government or authority

• redress
• rectitude
• annihilation
• insurrection

to give up one's throne

• perfidy
• usurpations
• impel
• abdicated