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Excerpt from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

4 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
The BEST definition of both consecrate and hallow (from section four) is
A) to make holy
B) to make empty
C) to work together
D) to bury or forget

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Your answer is A to make holy


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In this excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the BEST definition of both consecrate and hallow (from section four) is A) to make holy. The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, in Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. He honored them and reminded the people that they had sacrificed for equality, freedom and national unit. So they had made the ground a holy ground.

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