| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Engendering | giving rise to "angry words engender strife" |
| Hallowed | Holy, scred |
| Boorish | rude, uncouth, ill-mannered |
| Burnished | Highly polished |
| zest | excitement, fervor |
| sedately | calmly and seriously |
| sentiment | feeling, emotion |
| prelate | a priest of superior rank |
| glib | marked by ease in speaking or writing to the point of being insincere |
| gallnat | noble |
| scope | range of operation or authority |
| penitents | a person under the direction of a confessor |
| shrift | confession |
| absolution | forgiveness |
| verity | honesty, state of being truthful |
| commerce | commercial dealings, trade, interaction |
| arbitrate | to mediate or judge between two disputing parties |
| wantonness | extravagance |
| motley | colorful |
| estimable | worthy of esteem, valuable, admirable |
| preferment | advancement |
| sanguine | happy, cheerful |
| dais | raised platform |
| tempest | violent storm |
| pestilence | plague, massive disease |
| diligent | hardworking, assiduous |
| mercenary | a soldier for hire, motivated by money |
| contemptuous | disdainful, scornful |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| repine | express dejection or discontent |
| buffoon | fool |
| duress | constraint by threat; coercion |
| gelding | a castrated male horse |
| prevarication | straying away from the truth |
| scurrility | vulgarity |
| skittish | nervous, uncontrollable |
| paramours | lovers |
| amorous | strongly moved by love, especially sexual love |
| proxy | person authorized to act for another |
| solace | comfort |
| inferring | guess, surmise |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper |
| abate | cease or reduce in degree or intensity |
| perturbation | agitation of the mind |
| apoplexy | fainting or having a stroke |
| deportment | behavior, bearing |
| timorous | fearful |
| trifling | inconsequential |
| superfluity | excess. immoderate living, habits, or desires |
| tribulation | trouble, defeat, long-term and serious problems |
| manifest | obvious, evident |
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