| Term | Definition |
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| absinthe | n. a green, aromatic liqueur that is 68 percent alcohol, is made with wormwood and other herbs, and has a bitter, licorice flavor: now banned in most Western countries. |
| white elephant | n. a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive |
| felicity | n. great happiness; bliss; a cause or source of happiness. |
| congenial | adj. getting on well with others; agreeable, pleasant |
| querulous | adj. habitually complaining |
| impertinence | n. inappropriate playfulness |
| tarn | n. a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) |
| importunate | adj. urgent in character, request, or demand. |
| munificent | adj. very generous; liberal in giving |
| specious | adj. plausible but false |
| purloined | v. taken dishonestly |
| cataleptical | adj. affected with catalepsy, a condition of suspended animation; loss of voluntary motion, decreased sensitivity to pain |
| incubus | n. a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women |
| prolixity | n. boring verboseness; wordiness |
| caprice | n. a sudden desire; impulsive change of mind |
| brindled | adj. having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring |
| lugs | n. British slang for ears |
| rapacious | adj. excessively greedy and grasping |
| circumambulate | adj. to walk around in a circle, especially as part of a ritual |
| diadem | n. an ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty; crown |
| vindictively | adv. in a vindictive, revengeful manner; spitefully |
| insular | adj. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope |
| horse (not the animal) | n. slang for heroin |
| lodestone | n. A piece of magnetite that has magnetic properties and attracts iron or steel; something/someone that is magnetic |
| Zion | n. the historic land of Israel as a symbol of the Jewish people; the Jewish people; Israel; a place or religious community regarded as sacredly devoted to God; an idealized, harmonious community; utopia. |
| corroborate | v. to establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts |
| dystopia | n. a state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror; a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror; a work describing such a place |
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