Erudite
"For did not that erudite british historian and Regius professor at Oxford, Hugh Trevor-Roper, also pronounce that African history did not exist (page 2)?"
-Showing knowledge acquired from books or studying.
Espoused
"The kind of liberalism espoused here by Marlow/Conrad touched all the best minds of the age in England, Europe and America (page 6)."
-To take up or support a cause.
Purport
"How can I stand up more than fifty years after his death and purport to contradict him (page 9)."
-To infer or imply.
Xenophobia
"But even those not blinkered, like Conrad, with xenophobia, can be astonishingly blind (page 10)."
-fear of strangers or foreigners.
Unequivocal
"And all this while the article speaks unequivocally about language(page 11)."
-To be clear or leave no doubt.
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