| Term | Definition |
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| abashed | ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted |
| autumnal | period of maturity verging on decline |
| boon | a blessing, something to be thankful for |
| brazen | shameless; marked by flagrant and insolent audacity |
| contumely | rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance; insulting display of contempt |
| enjoin | to urge, order, command;p forbid or prohibit |
| enveloped | wrapped up in; entirely surrounded by |
| evanescent | vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor |
| grisly | inspiring repungance; gruesome |
| hussy | woman considered brazen or immoral |
| igominy | shameful or disgraceful action, conduct, or character |
| inquest | investigation; court or legal proceeding |
| interpose | to interject or interrupt; to come between |
| manifest | clearly apparent to the sight or understanding; obvious |
| perchance | perhaps; possibly |
| prefigure | to suggest, indicate, or represent by an antecedent form or model; presage or foreshadow |
| rankle | to cause persistent irritation or resentment |
| serrene | unaffected by disturbance; calm and unruffled |
| sumptuary | regulating personal behavior on moral or religious grounds |
| venemous | malicious; spiteful; poisonous |
| abate | to reduce in amount, degree, or intensity:lessen |
| cloister | a place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion |
| disdainful | scornful and contemptious |
| expound | to explain or describe in detail |
| furrowed | a deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead |
| grievous | causing grief, pain, or anguish |
| heterogenous | completely different |
| impediment | hinderence or obstruction |
| in lieu of | in place of: instead of |
| iniquity | gross immortality or injustice: wickedness |
| magistrate | an official who can administrate laws |
| mien | characteristics expressive of attitude or personality; demeanor |
| phantasmogoric | a constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements |
| preternatural | surpassing the normal or usual; extraordinary |
| subside | to become less agitated or active; abate |
| tuft | a dense clump, especially of trees or bushes |
| vie | to complete, contend for |
| visage | face or facial expression of a person |
| wreak | to inflict upon a person |
| writhing | to twist. as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment |
| albeit | even though; although; notwithstanding |
| alchemy | medieval belief that base metals could be changed into gold, as well as the discovery of the elixer of life |
| amenable | responsible to advice, authority, or suggestion; willing |
| discerning | perceiving or recognizing with the eyes or intellect |
| efficiacy | power to produced the desired results |
| expostulation | earnest and kindly protest; the act of reasoning with someone against something that person intends to do |
| genial | having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner |
| gall | to make sore from abrasion; to exasperate and irritate |
| grizzled | partly gray or streaked with gray |
| impalpable | not perceptible to the touch; intangible |
| lurid | wild; sensational |
| prefixed | added or attached to the beginning of something |
| remorselessly | having no pity or compassion; mercilessly |
| requital | return, as for an injury or friendly act |
| sagacity | quality of being discerning, sound in judgement, and farsighted; wisdom |
| sustenance | something, especially food, that sustains life or health |
| taint | a moral flaw, smear, or mark |
| tempestuous | tumultous; stormy |
| tremulously | marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking |
| unadulterated | not mingled or diluted with extraneous matter; pure |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| besmirch | to stain; sully |
| embody | to give a bodily form to; incarnate |
| feigned | to represent falsely; pretend to |
| impelled | to drive forward; propel |
| inquisitorial | relating to a criminal proceeding conducted in secrecy |
| inscrutable | dificult to fathom or understand; inpenetrable |
| ligaments | unifying or connecting tie or bond |
| melancholy | sad;depressed |
| paramour | illicit lover |
| pedestal | position of high regard or adoration |
| progenitor | ancestor |
| quell | to subdue, to crash |
| sable | black |
| somnambulism | sleepwalking |
| suffice | to meet present needs or requirements; be sufficient |
| uncongenial | not compatible or sympathetic |
| vivify | to make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven |
| wrought | to make or decorate by needlework |
| zenith | upper region of the sky |
| ascetic | leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement |
| averred | to affirm positively; declare |
| grotesque | characteristics by ludicrous or incongruos distortion, as of appearence or manner |
| imbibed | to absorb or take in as if by drinking |
| malice | desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite |
| martyrdom | death or intense suffereing experienced due to one's belief |
| medium | agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred |
| mutability | ability to change or alter |
| piety | the state or quality of religious devotion and reverence to God |
| rank | growing profusely or with excessive vigor |
| revile | to assail with abusive language; vituperate |
| russet | coarse reddish-brown to brown homespun cloth |
| rustic | of, relating of, or typical of country life or country people |
| shrill | high-pitched and piercing in tone or sound |
| steadfast | fixed or unchanging; steady |
| succor | to give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress |
| superfluous | being beyond what is required or sufficient |
| trifles | something of little importance or value |
| voluptuos | full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses |
| vulgar | of or associated with the great masses of people; commmon |
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