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Flags of Our Fathers
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- To Representative Homer Angell of Oregon, orating elegantly on the House floor, the flagraising photograph represented "the dauntless permanency of the American spirit."†
Chpt 13.dauntless = never discouraged or intimidatedstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in dauntless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Half a world away, the boys did not look so dauntless.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(daunt) to discourage or intimidate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)