| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Indolence | habitual laziness; sloth |
| denominated | to give a name to |
| prudently | firmly established; deep rooted |
| propensity | a tendency |
| advert | to call attention; refer |
| stripling | an adolescent youth |
| sequestered | secluded |
| glen | valley |
| prevade | to be present throughout; permeate |
| reverie | daydream |
| gambol | to leap about playfully; frolic |
| anon | at another time, later |
| spectre | ghost |
| allege | state without proof |
| purport | the intended meaning of a communication |
| propensity | natural inclination |
| apparitions | ghosts |
| laud | to praise |
| incessant | uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing |
| sojourned | a temporary stay |
| cognomen | family name; nickname |
| snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family/ to attack from hiding spot |
| withe | band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems |
| peradventure | by chance |
| maxim | a wise saying, aphorism, proverb |
| potentates | a ruler who is unconstrained by law |
| dogged | stubbornly persistent |
| behoove | be appropriate or necessary |
| onerous | burdensome |
| ingratiating | charming; agreeable; used to win over favor |
| whilom | former |
| magnanimously | generously |
| epitaph | an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there |
| harbinger | foreshadow |
| portentious | ominous |
| perambulations | pleasant, leisurely walks |
| coquette | a flirt |
| chanticleer | a rooster |
| dexterous | skillful in physical movements |
| uncouth | crude |
| boorish | rude |
| waggery | mischievious humor |
| ferule | a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children |
| mynheer | courtesy title of men |
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