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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 wily | crafty; cunning. |
| improvident | ; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary. |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: |
| mirth | gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: |
| discern | to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: |
| vibrant | pulsating with vigor and energy: |
| dispatched | to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc. |
| imperious | domineering in a haughty manner; |
| perpetual | continuing or enduring forever; everlasting. |
| capricious | subject to, led by, whim; erratic: |
| malevolence | the quality, state, or feeling of ill will; malice; hatred. |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage |
| contemptible | .Disregard for something that should be taken into account. |
| tentative | of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; |
| malicious | characterized by or showing spite; spiteful: |
| luxuriant | abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation. |
| despair | loss of hope; hopelessness. |
| kindle | to start (a fire); cause (a flame, blaze, etc.) to begin burning. |
| benevolent | characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings: |
| communal | used or shared in common by everyone in a group |
| exacting | rigid or severe in demands or requirements: |
| arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: |
| poignant | keenly distressing to the feelings: |
| vividly | strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, |
| deft | dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: |
| feign | to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: |
| harbingers | a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald. |
| copiously | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: |
| succulent | full of juice; juicy. |
| audacity | boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions. |
| exoteric | Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest. |
| approbation | approval; commendation. |
| voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative |
| plumage | the entire feathery covering of a bird. |
| potent | powerful; mighty |
| rent | the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate. |
| calamity | a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury. |
| refuge | shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc |
| grievously | causing grief or great sorrow: |
| fugitives | a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: |
| woeful | wretched; unhappy: |
| ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: |
| derisive | contemptuous; mocking: |
| callow | immature or inexperienced: |
| impudent | shameless or brazenly immodest. |
| degenerate | to diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.: |
| adherents | Someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas. |
| atonement | satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends. |
| revered | to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: |
| zeal | fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor |
| blaspheme | to speak evil of; slander; abuse. |
| fermenting | Agitation and excitement among a group of people, typically concerning major change and leading to trouble or violence. |
| flourish | to be in a vigorous state; thrive: |
| resilient | springing back; rebounding. |
| idolatrous | worshiping idols. |
| expedient | tending to promote some proposed or desired object; |
| zealots | an excessively zealous person; fanatic. |
| desecrated | to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office. |
| profane | characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious. |
| desolate | dreary; dismal; gloomy: |
| discordant | being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: |
| pacified | to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm |
| sonorous | loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound. |
| superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive. |
| appease | to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage :to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: |
| resolute | characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc. |
| ferociously | savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel |
| enthralled | Capture the fascinated attention of. |
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