| Term | Definition |
|---|
| perfidious | disloyal |
| prerogative | a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence |
| inveterate | long established; deep-rooted; habitual |
| beseech | beg |
| perdition | damnation; ruin; hell |
| prescience | the power to foresee the future |
| piteous | deserving or inciting pity |
| usurp | seize and take control without authority and possibly with force |
| prate | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| dolor | (poetry) painful grief |
| enmity | hatred |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| spendthrift | someone who spends money prodigally |
| scurvy | a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) |
| fen | low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation |
| contentious | having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
| ebbing | a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) |
| hearkens | to listen and pay attention |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances |
| insolent | marked by casual disrespect |
| abhorred | regarded with horror or loathing |
| vassal | n. A slave or bondman. |
| credulous | disposed to believe on little evidence |
| malignant | dangerous to health |
| vouchsafe | to give or grant, as by a favor |
| odius | deserving or causing hatred |
| prattle | praise |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous |
| valiant | possessing or acting with bravery or boldness |
| jocund | cheerful |
| peerless | having no equal; incomparable |
| supplant | to replace |
| forgo | to do without, abstain from, give up |
| surfeited | v. indulged to excess |
| bereft | deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
| putter | move around aimlessly |
| boded | to be an omen or indication of something |
| vexations | The act of annoying |
| infirmity | the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) |
| corollary | inference; result |
| bounteous | given or giving freely |
| trumpery | worthless nonsense; trivial or useless artciles: junk |
| austerely | severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding |
| dalliance | a trifling away of time |
| aspersion | an abusive attack on a person's character or good name |
| rabble | a disorderly crowd, a mob |
| convulsions | violent disturbances |
| wanton | playfully mean or cruel |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter |
| promontory | a high point of land extending into water |
| abjure | to reject solemnly |
| dainty | delicate, sweet |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant |
| mutinous | rebellious |
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