Intro to the Enlightenment

3. lacking something needed or desirable; especially : suffering extreme poverty
6. marked by forbearance or endurance; acceptance
11. having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever
15. formal emancipation from slavery
17. a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed
19. to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses; to put or change into an improved form or condition
21. a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached
22. to bring into agreement; to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned
23. to establish by legal and authoritative act; especially to make into law
24. a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position

1. a philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
2. feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
4. to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
5. a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster
7. disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
8. one exercising power tyrannically : a person exercising absolute power in a brutal or oppressive way
9. displaying great diversity or variety; versatile
10. the actions or practice of suppressing or deleting as objectionable
12. to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
13. ardent, passionate
14. the act or state of being of being unable or unwilling to endure something; or the act or state of being of being unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional right
16. the quality or state of being marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty
18. marked by baseness or grossness; vile, wretched, dirty, filthy
20. a person who reigns over a kingdom or empire; such as a sovereign ruler
25. of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior; ethical