| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abhor | v. to hate |
| appease | v. make peace with |
| Assailable | adj. not defended or capable of being defended, open to attack |
| Avaricious | adj. Greedy |
| Benediction | 1. A blessing 2. An invocation of divine blessing, usually at a church service 3. an expression of good wishes |
| Blaspheming | v. to speak badly of a religious thing; speaking evilly |
| Carping | adj. persistent petty and unjustified criticism |
| Censure | n/v n. strong disapproval v. to criticize harshly |
| Chastise | v. 1. to inflict punishment on by whipping 2. to punish as by beating |
| Cistern | n. stores water or other liquids |
| Compunctious | adj. to feel guilty of having a sting of concious or a pang of doubt |
| Cloistered | adj. Solitary, furnished with cloisters, retired from the world |
| Clamorous | ADJ noisy; shouting, demanding attention loudly, urgent in complaint or demand |
| Consummation | n. the act if completing, ending or fulfilling |
| Contumely | n. an insulting display |
| Covert | secret or hidden |
| Credulous | disposed to believe on little evidence |
| Diminutive | adj. extremely small; smallness n. smaller or shorter thing (eg name) |
| Disparage | adv. to lower in esteem, discredit, belittle |
| Dissemble | v. to give false or misleading appearance 2. to conceal the truth or true nature |
| Dotard | n. a person who is feeble minded through old age |
| Enigmatical | adj. perplexing, hard to understand |
| Ere | prep. before |
| Exasperate | v. to irritate, annoy extremely |
| Extant | adj. existing, not destroyed or lost |
| Furbished | v. 1. to brighten by cleaning or rubbing, polish 2. to restore to attractive or serviceable condition; renovate |
| Harbinger | n. 1. a person who goes ahead and announces someone of distinction approaching 2. anything that foreshadows a future event; sign; omen |
| Heretic | n. a person who holds controversial opinions, esp. one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Implore | v. to beg urgently or pitiously; ask for mercy; beseech, entreat |
| Incense | v. to inflame with wrath, make angry |
| Indissoluble | adj. 1. Not dissoluble, incapable of being dissolved or destroyed 2. Firm or stable 3. Perpetually binding or obligatory |
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