| Term | Definition |
| pernicious | adj; very destructive or harmful |
| portentous | adj; threatening, being a warning of evil |
| purge | v; to make clean |
| mar | v; to spoil, to make a blemish on |
| disparagement | n; degrading, belittling, the act of lowering in rank |
| reel | v; to stagger, recoil, fall back, sway dizzily |
| profane | v; to misuse, defile, employ basely or unworthily, to put to a wrong or vulgur use, debase |
| prodigious | adj; exciting amazement or wonder, very big, huge |
| impute | v; to give the blame, fault, or responsibility to some person or cause; to attribute |
| vice | n; evil conduct or habits, wickedness |