| Term | Definition |
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| Blasphemous | (adj.) uttering, containing action concerning God or sacred things; profane or cursing God |
| Allay | (verb) to put or to rest; calm and quiet; to lessen or relieve; diminish |
| Perdition | (noun) state of final spiritual ruin; loss of soul or utter destruction |
| Perfidious | (adj.) deliberately faithless; treacherous, false, disloyal, unfaithful, traitorous, evil |
| Prerogative | (noun) an excursive right, or privilege excersized by social ranking; obsolete |
| Inveterate | (adj.) settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling; individual used to something |
| Zenith | (noun) the highest point or peak; summit |
| Auspicious | (adj.) promising success; favorable or favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate |
| Malignant | (adj.) disposed to cause harm, suffering or distress; evil and dangerous |
| Unmitigable | (adj.) unable to make less severe; able to make severe |
| Enmity | (noun) a feeling or condition of hostility, hatred or ill will |
| Importuned | (verb) to demand urgency, obsolete; to annoy or beg for |
| Mettle | (noun) courage or fortitude |
| Gaberdine | (noun) long, loose coat; firm tightly woven fabric (cotton) |
| Credulous | (verb) willing to believe or to trust too readily without proper or adequate evidence |
| Injunction | (noun) a judicial process or order, command or law |
| Sinew | (noun or verb) strength or power |
| Precepts | (noun) an injunction to moral conduct; a writ or a warrant |
| Jocund | (adj.) cheerful, merry, glad |
| Supplant | (verb) to take place of through force; overrule |
| Austere, Austerely | (adj./adverb) severe in manner or appearance; strict lacking softness |
| Abstemious | (noun) sparing or moderate in eating or drinking |
| Indignation | (noun) strong displeasure at something considered offensive or insulting |
| Gait | (noun) manner of walking, stepping, or running |
| Infirmity | (noun) physical weakness in the mind; moral weakness |
| Abjure | (verb) to renounce, to avoid, or to shun |
| Requite | (verb) to make repayment or return for service |
| Gallant | (adj.) brave, spirited, polite, colorful (noun) nobleman |
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