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Fretters: Old High German frezzan

Headsmen: a public executioner who beheads condemned persons

Despotism: the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority.

Coarse: harsh; grating.

Subdue: to conquer and bring into subjection

18. Headsmen were the enforcers of absolutist societies.

19. Coarse is used to describe something crude.

20. The lines lack the citation of authorities.

21. Refers to the overall power of democracy.

22. The tone seems all-knowing thus it is ominous.

23. The connotation behind existance is alienating.

24. The lines demonstrate a forceful and dominant tone.

25. This line servers as a warning to abusive leaders.

26. Line 31 refers to utside parties or commoners.

27. The second paragraph transfers into the third while supporting ideas in the first.

28. The speaker uses these citations as a refrence.

29. The word ruling indicates votes due to the U.S. being partly democratic.

30. It is used to remind the reader of past events to make an idea.

31. Freedom can enslave is a paradox although the speaker uses this the explain a truth.

Chemise: a woman's loose-fitting, shirtlike undergarment.

Anthropology: the study of human beings' similarity to and divergence from other
animals.

Kaiser: a person who exercises or tries to exercise absolute authority;autocrat.

Capers: a playful leap or skip

Folklore: the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a


people
32. It was something that she enjoyed and was happy to do.

33. She shows the similarities between the two.

34. She explains that folklore was not anything new to her.
35. She does not question her passion.

36. She experienced new things which reflected her experience in anthropology.

37. The speakers planned research Is absent in the fifth paragraph.

38. Line 34 shows understanding which leads to acceptance.

39. The word flat-footed has a plain connotation which reflects the townspeople’s feelings.

40. There is a trandfer into an anecdote.

41. These lines show the values behind folklores in peoples lives.

42. She finds them to be very solid in their lives.

43. she has a very simplistic approach in her explaining.

44. It reflects the speaker’s discovery of herself.

Rogue: a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel

Knave: an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person

Raillery: good-humored ridicule; banter

Invective: vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach

Betwixt: neither the one nor the other

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