Spoliated
"Whole villages were spoliated and destroyed (page 8)."
-To completely strip of value or worth.
2.Polemic
"Ultimately, however, the strengths of the story as a polemic- (page 4)..."
-An aggressive rebuttal to another's statements.
3. Protean
"Everywhere felt but only occasionally glimpsed, the latter emerges as a strangely protean presence, forming and re-forming like a genie from a bottle (page 12)."
-To be versatile or adaptable.
4. Flinty
The pressures put upon him reflect more widely on a tradition of liberal humanism that, when faced by the flinty actualities of wider colonial politics, has commonly suffered painful defeat( page 14-15)..."
-Having the characteristics of being stern or hard.
5. Iconoclastic
"In his restless energy as an explorer, conqueror, and self-styled hero of the empire, he is a powerfully iconoclastic caricature (page 16)."
-Strongly opposing a belief.
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