| Term | Definition |
|---|
| fervent | impassioned, marked by great intensity of feeling |
| pervade | spread throughout |
| tenet | belief |
| superfluous | not needed |
| punctilious | obsessed with obeying rules and regulations |
| ostracize | exclude |
| retort | reply |
| anathema | something vigorously loathed |
| tenacious | cling, stubbornly unyielding |
| licentious | lacking moral restraints |
| impunity | without care for consequences |
| abject | low, most unfortunate or miserable |
| emancipate | free |
| insurrection | uprising, rebellion |
| despotic | tyrannical |
| assail | to attack violently |
| widower | male widow |
| abate | to reduce in intensity |
| expostulate | reason with somebody for the purpose of dissuasion |
| benefactress | female patron |
| untoward | adverse |
| complicit | being an accomplice in a wrongful act |
| grave | serious |
| panegyric | a eulogy, also elaborate praise |
| servile | submissive |
| commence | begin |
| intimate | to hint |
| dissipation | dispersion |
| surmise | to form a notion from scanty evidence |
| slovenly | lazily slipshod |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration |
| clamorous | noisily insistent |
| tableau | a striking grouping |
| grizzled | graying |
| languor | weakness of body or mind |
| disdain | contempt for something inferior |
| remonstrance | the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest |
| dexterity | mental quickness |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering |
| fetters | restraints, espeicially for the feet |
| procure | to obtain |
| beseech | to beg |
| docile | easily managed |
| capricious | impulsive |
| paltry | measly |
| loquacious | talkative |
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