| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Inferno | (noun) a place of fiery heat or destruction; hell |
| Canto | (noun) a chapter in an epic poem |
| epic | (nonu) a long, narrative story about the journey of a hero. The hero often must "save" a people |
| allegory | (nonu) a story that is read on both a literal and symbolic level |
| sloth | (nonu) laziness |
| wrath | (nonu) anger |
| gluttony | (noun) excess |
| pride | (noun) a high opinion of one's own, importance or superiroity |
| lust | (noun) passionate desire or craving, often sexual |
| avarice | (noun) greed |
| malice | (noun) spite |
| fraud | (noun) a deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain |
| incontinence | inability to control yourself |
| miser | a stingy, cheap person |
| tremulous | trembling; fearful |
| bliss | supreme happiness |
| immortal | not subject to death |
| salvation | deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption (ie will got to heaven) |
| opportunist | a person who makes decisions to benefit him/herself regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles |
| putrid | extremely rotten or decayed |
| woe | distress |
| omnipotence | the quality of being all powerful (god-like) |
| forsaken | abandoned |
| primordial | from the very beginning |
| pandemonium | a very noisy place (literally "all the devils") |
| lamentation | the expression of grief |
| swoon | to faint (use in the Inferno); to be overwhelmed by joy |
| retrograde | moving backwards |
| goaded | to prod or urge with or as if with a large, pointed stick |
| carnal | relating to the act of physical and especially sexual appetites |
| debauchery | extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures |
| 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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