| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Bombast | puffed-up; pompous |
| Preferment | promotion |
| obsequious | fawning; showing servile compliance |
| grange | farm; granary |
| lascivious | lecherous |
| deluding | deceiving |
| promulgate | officially announce |
| beguiled | diverted; taken away; also charmed or delighted |
| alacrity | eagerness; quickness |
| surfeited | fed to excess |
| tempest | violent storm |
| base | common; low in station |
| satiety | the condition of being overfilled or overgratified |
| requisites | requirements |
| impediment | something in the way; a hindrance |
| egregiously | conspicuously offensively |
| perdition | total ruin; damnation |
| shrift | confessional |
| beseech | earnestly request |
| wooed | courted, dated |
| conspire | secretly plot |
| importunity | repeated requests |
| castigation | punishment; criticism |
| advocation | a cause or a path of actions |
| suborned | induced to commit a bad action or perjury |
| credulous | gullible |
| reproach | criticism; disgrace; blame; shame |
| wit | intelligence; humor |
| iniquity | sin(s) |
| expostulate | reason earnestly |
| mandate | command; official instruction |
| bawdy | vulgar; humorously coarse |
| insinuating | introducing an idea subtlety |
| incontinent | uncontrolled; unrestrained |
| mars | damages; marks |
| peril | danger |
| anon | soon |
| fie | used to express distaste or disapproval |
| linger | to be slow in learning |
| pernicious | deadly; destructive |
| gratify | reward; indulge; satisfy |
| trifle | something of little importance or value |
| dismayed | having lost courage |
| malice | spite; ill-will |
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