| Term | Definition |
|---|
| preclude | to make impossible, especially by taking action in advance |
| impunity | freedom form penalty or harm |
| abscond | to go away suddenly and secretly |
| repose | to lie dead or at rest |
| subside | to decrease in amount or intensity; to settle down |
| aperture | an opening, such as a hole or gap |
| redress | compensation (payback) for a wrong or injury; when something wrong happen, this means to make it right again |
| retribution | an action or item given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment; punishment, ESPECIALLY deserved |
| vault | a burial chamber (usually underground) |
| catacomb | underground grave or for wine |
| sconce | a candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall |
| immolation | death or destruction (esp. by fire) |
| quack | a person who pertends, professionally or publicly, to have a skill, knoledge, or qualifitions he or she does not posses |
| motley | the parti-colored clothing of a jester (clown-like person in a court) |
| gait | a manner of walking, steeping or running |
| grotesque | biarre, unusual, distorted, as in character or appearance |
| mason | person who builds or works with or brick and mortar (the sticky stuff between bricks) |
| amontillado | a wine from Spain |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| termination | an end, finale |
| teem | to abound or swarm;be prolific or fertile |
| paean | any song or prise, joy or triumph; a hymn of invoccation or thanksgiving |
| besiege | to crowd around; crowd in upon: surround (esp. to beg) |
| abyss | a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm; anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite |
| barren | not producing or incapable ot producing offspring; sterlie |
| travail | painfully difficult or burensome work; toil; pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship |
| pestilence | a deadly or virulent epidemic disease |
| harry | to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks |
| opulent | wealthy, rich or affluent; richly suppiled; abundant or plentiful |
| supplicant | petitioner/suppliant |
| succor | help; relief; aid; assistance; a thing or person that provides it |
| haste | swiftness of motion; speed; celerity |
| zeal | fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiatic |
| augur | to divine or predict, as from omens; prognosticate n. a soothsayer |
| solicitous | anxious or concerned |
| ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threating; inauspicious |
| purge | to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify |
| exile | to expel or banish (a person) from his or her country; expatriate |
| enigma | a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation |
| invocation | a form of prayer invoking god's (or another detiy's) presence, esp. one said at the beginning of a religious service or public ceremony |
| clamor | a noisy outburst; outcry |
| dispirited | dejected |
| flay | to whip or to lash |
| retaliate | to pay back an injury in kind |
| stark | compelete or utter; extreme; absolute |
| adulation | excessive praise or flattery |
| aghast | filled with shock or horror |
| askew | crooked; to one side |
| disconsolate | extremely depressed or dejected |
| gamut | an entire range or series |
| incessantly | without interruption; continuously |
| pauper | a poor person, esp. one who depends public charity |
| pirvation | the lack of basic necessity or comfort of life |
| prospects | chances or possibilities, esp for financial success |
| vexation | irritation; annoyance (verb from is vex) |
| cascade | to fall or flow like a waterfall |
| homely | simple; everyday; lacking in physical attractiveness: not beautiful; unattractive |
| infuse | to fill, as if by pouring |
| leer | to give a sly, evil glance |
| sacrilegious | disrespectful toward a sacred person, place, thing |
| taut | pulled or drawn tight |
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