5th box -Flashcards

(v.) to free from obligation; to admit to citizenship; The player was enfranchised when the deal was called off. The recent immigrants were enfranchised when they took their oath to their new country.

(n.) the practice of lying; The already sensational trial of a star athlete turned all the more so when it turned out that a police detective had committed perjury. Lying while on the witness stand is perjury.

(v.) to be an omen of; signify; The distant roll of thunder portends of an oncoming storm.

(n.) disaster; The fire in the apartment building was a great calamity.