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Rh Juvenile (for "boy")

Lady (for "wife")

Last (for "latest")

Lengthy (for "long")

Leniency (for "lenity")

Loafer

Loan or loaned (for "lend" or "lent")

Located

Majority (relating to places or circumstances for "most")

Mrs. President, Mrs. Governor, Mrs. General, and all similar titles

Mutual (for "common")

Official (for "officer")

On yesterday

Ovation

Over his signature

Pants (for "pantaloons")

Partially (for "partly")

Parties (for "persons")

Past two weeks (for "last two weeks" and all similar expressions relating to a definite time)

Poetess

Portion (for "part")

Posted (for "informed")

Progress (for "advance")

Quite (prefixed to "good," "large," etc.)

Raid (for "attack")

Realized (for "obtained")

Reliable (for "trustworthy")

Rendition (for "performance")

Repudiate (for "reject" or "disown")

Retire (as an active verb)

Rev. (for "the Rev.")

Role (for "part")

Roughs

Rowdies

Secesh

Sensation (for "noteworthy event")

Standpoint (for "point of view")

Start, in the sense of "setting out"

State (for "say")

Taboo

Talent (for "talents" or "ability")

Talented

Tapis

The deceased

War (for "dispute" or "disagreement")

"New York, Saturday evening, November 11, 1854.

"Governor Seward,—The election is over, and its results sufficiently ascertained. It seems to me a fitting time to an-