| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sardonic | Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic. |
| scornfully | full of direspect |
| venture | an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits |
| blackmail | obtain through threats |
| superimposed | placed on or over something else |
| liberty | freedom of choice |
| consessions | things given or granted as priveleges |
| recruits | people who have recently joined an organization or group such as the military. |
| sinister | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| menace | a threat or the act of threatening |
| sullen | showing a brooding ill humor |
| apprehensively | fearfully, suspiciously |
| gravely | in a grave (serious) manner; seriously |
| bewildered | perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements |
| pretentious | intended to attract notice and impress others |
| vicious | marked by deep ill will |
| transgression | the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit |
| iniquity | an unjust act, Gross wrong or injustice. |
| guile | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| mortified | made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride |
| earnestly | in a serious manner |
| vengeance | the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life |
| conscience | a feeling of shame when you do something immoral |
| repentance | Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong. |
| disheveled | in loose disorder; disarranged. |
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