| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abstemious | Sparing (usually in cating or drinking); temperate |
| advocacy | support of an idea or cause |
| auspicious | favorable |
| austere | strict stern; unadorned, ascetic |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values |
| bestow | to grant or to give |
| blasphemous | irreverent, profane |
| celestial | pertaining to the sky or heavens |
| cherubic | innocent, wholesome, angelic |
| contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, Gullible |
| desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
| diligent | characterized by ready, attentive and energetic effort in pursuit or study |
| disdain | intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
| divination | foretelling the future by means of magic |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| enmity | absolute hatred |
| expeditious | done with speed and efficiency |
| firebrand | a person who stirs up trouble |
| harmonious | showing accord; melodious |
| heed | to give attention to |
| homage | a reverntial regard; respect shown by external action |
| ignoble | of lowly origin, without honor |
| impertinent | insolently rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners |
| indulgent | lenient, especially toward oneself |
| industrious | skillfully busy or occupied |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| inveterate | firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted |
| knotty | so complicated that it can probably not be solved; full of knots |
| loathe | to detest |
| malign | to utter injuriously misleading reports about |
| mettle | courage or spirit |
| mutinous | rebellious, unruly |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant |
| perdition | eternal damnation, utter ruin |
| perfidious | calculated to deceive; deceitful; treacherous |
| potent | powerful, having a strong effect |
| prescient | knowledge of events before they happen, foresight |
| promontory | land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| quaint | unusual in character or appearance |
| reputable | having a good reputation |
| requite | to make repayment or to return |
| slothful | lazy, indolent |
| sovereign | possessed of controlling power |
| subtle | delicate, elusive, not obvious |
| summon | to call together, to send or to request to appear |
| supplant | to take the place of |
| supple | easily bent, elastic, pliable |
| surfeited | fed or supplied to excess |
| temperate | exercising self-control |
| tempestuous | turbulent, stormy |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous |
| unmintigated | not made less sever or intense |
| upbraid | to scold harshly, to reproach |
| vexation | discomfort or distress |
| virtuous | having excellent morals; righteous |
| vouchsafe | to grant in a condescending manner |
| wanton | immoral, Jewd |
| warranted | justified |
| zenith | the highest point overhead, peak |
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