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  1. perjurer
    a person who deliberately gives false testimony
    Twain, it will be observed, is suggestivcly silent about the Cochin China perjury.

    the rest of the campaign this paper never referred to me in any other Way than as “the infamous perjurer Twain.”]
  2. lacerate
    cut or tear irregularly
    But no-«let us leave hlm to the agony of a lacerating c0nsciencc»-(though if passion should get the better of the public and in its blind fury they should do thc traduccr bodily injury, it is but too obvious that no jury could convict and no court
  3. dishearten
    take away the enthusiasm of
    One day this met my aye:

    THE LIE the sworn añìdavits of Michael gan, Esq., of the Five Points, and Mr. Kit Burns and Mr. lohn Allen, of Water street;` it is established that Mr. Mark TWain’s vile statement that the lamented grandfather ofour noble standa
  4. knock down
    cause to come or go down
    A telegram from his physician stated that he had been knocked down by a runaway team and his leg broken in two places-sufferer lying in great agony, and so forth, and so forth, and a lot more bosh of the same sort, And the Independents tried hard t
  5. baseless
    without a foundation in reason or fact
    There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to “answer” a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods.
  6. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
    A telegram from his physician stated that he had been knocked down by a runaway team and his leg broken in two places-sufferer lying in great agony, and so forth, and so forth, and a lot more bosh of the same sort, And the Independents tried hard to swall
  7. delirium
    a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion
    [It shows what effect the times were having on me when I say that I saw myself confidently dubbed “Mn Delirium Trcmens Twain” in the next issue of that journal Without a Pang-notwithstanding I knew that with monotonous fidelity the paper would go o
  8. malignity
    quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
    But I never ñnished the task` for the very next morning a paper carne out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates because it obstructed the View from my house.
  9. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
    One day this met my aye:

    THE LIE the sworn añìdavits of Michael gan, Esq., of the Five Points, and Mr. Kit Burns and Mr. lohn Allen, of Water street;` it is established that Mr. Mark TWain’s vile statement that the lamented grandfather ofour noble
  10. malicious
    having the nature of threatening evil
    Could anything be more deliberately malicious than that?
  11. fidelity
    the quality of being faithful
    [It shows what effect the times were having on me when I say that I saw myself confidently dubbed “Mn Delirium Trcmens Twain” in the next issue of that journal Without a Pang-notwithstanding I knew that with monotonous fidelity the paper would go o
  12. hideous
    grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
    Gaze upon him-ponder him welińand then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them!
  13. indignation
    a feeling of righteous anger
    The ingenious closing sentencß had the effect of rnoving me out of bed with despatch that night, and out at the back door, also, While the `"outraged and insulted public” surged in thc front way, breaking furniture and Windows in their righteous indign
  14. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
    A telegram from his physician stated that he had been knocked down by a runaway team and his leg broken in two places-sufferer lying in great agony, and so forth, and so forth, and a lot more bosh of the same sort, And the Independents tried hard to swall
  15. get out
    move out of or depart from
    There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to “answer” a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods.
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