Use context clues to figure out the meaning of the underlined word your answer in your paper

1. God ENDOWED all men with certain unquestionable rights .

2. The Vietnamese's sufferings and miseries increased because they were subjected to the double YOKE of the French and the Japanese

3. From 1940. our country had in fact CEASED to be a French colony and had become a Japanese property

4 The war made the French leave, the Japanese surrender, and Emperor Bai Dai ABDICATE

5. In the declaration of our independence , we REPEAL the entire international obligation that France has dictated and we abolish all the special rights the French have unlawfully acquired and enjoyed in our own land​