| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Inferno | a place of fiery heat or destruction, hell |
| Canto | a chapter in an epic poem |
| epic | a long narrative story about the journey of a hero (often involves saving people) |
| allegory | a story read on a literal and symbolic level |
| sloth | laziness |
| wrath | anger |
| gluttony | excess (usually eating or drinking; can be anything) |
| pride | a high opinion of one's own importance or superiority |
| lust | a passionate desire or craving (often sexual) |
| avarice | greed |
| malice | desire to cause harm, injury or suffering |
| fraud | A deception deliberately done to secure unfair or unlawful gain |
| incontinence | inability to control; lack of restraint |
| miser | a stingy, cheap person |
| tremulous | trembling, fearful |
| bliss | supreme happiness |
| immortal | not subject to death |
| salvation | redemption, deliverance from the power and penalty of sin |
| opportunist | a person who makes decisions to benefit themself regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principle |
| putrid | extremely rotten or decayed |
| woe | distress |
| omnipotence | the quality of being all powerful (God-like) |
| forsaken | abandoned |
| primordial | from the beginning |
| pandemonium | a very noisy place (literally "all the devils") |
| lamentation | the expression of grief |
| swoon | to faint (Inferno's definition); to be overwhelmed by joy |
| retrograde | moving backwards |
| goaded | to urge as if with a long pointed stick |
| carnal | relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites |
| debauchery | extreme indulgence in sensual pleasure |
| depravity | moral corruption or degradation |
| blaspheme | to speak disrespectfully of God |
| tempest | storm |
| pilgrimage | a journey taken for religious reasons |
| dalliance | flirtation |
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