| Term | Definition |
|---|
| compassion | sympathetic feeling |
| caprice | sudden whim or fancy |
| solace | to comfort during grief |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| emphatic | uttered with emphasis |
| tumult | violent uproar |
| conjecture | opinion found on insuffient guess |
| ingenious | clever or smart |
| surmise | to conjecture, presume, suppose |
| ascertain | to learn with certainity |
| fastidious | overly difficult to please |
| candour | frankness or outspokeness |
| ostentation | pretentious or conspicuous show, trying to impress |
| piqued | to irritate arouse or provoke |
| synonymously | having the same meaning |
| intolerable | excessive |
| impertinent | irrelevant, rude or insolent |
| endeavor | try or attempt |
| felitcity | great happiness |
| pedantic | insist on petty details of things they know |
| indignation | anger or aroused by something unjust |
| gallant | polite or attentive to women, brave |
| inducement | to persuade into action |
| insipidity | lacking taste or flavor, dull or flat |
| complacency | a feeling of quiet pleasure or security |
| abominable | hateful, detestable, loathsome |
| decorum | orderliness, regularity proper behavior speech or dress |
| countenance | appearance, especially the look on one's face |
| rapture | ecstatic state of joy or happiness |
| panegyric | a formal or elaborate praise |
| laudable | deserving praise, praise worthy |
| precipitance | rash haste, suddeness, hurried |
| deference | respecting the opinion of another |
| expostulation | earnest and kindly protesting |
| approbation | approval |
| implacable | not to be appeased or made peace with |
| propensity | a natural inclination or tendancy |
| conscientiously | controlled by or done according to sense of right and wrong |
| odious | deserving or causing hatred |
| iniquitous | unjust, wicked |
| filial | of, pertaining to, or benifitting a son or daughter |
| veneration | a feeling or act of awe or reverence |
| bequeath | hand down or pass on |
| enumerating | name one by one |
| derision | ridicle, mockery |
| condescend | assume an aire of superiority |
| prudent | judicious in practical affairs, marked by wisdom |
| ablution | a cleansing with water or other liquid especially as a religious ritual |
| avarice | greed for riches and wealth |
| retaliate | to return like for like, to payback |
| prodigious | extraordinary in size or degree, |
| perusal | to read or skim |
| repugnance | strong distaste or objection |
| diminution | act or process of reducing |
| vindication | justifiable defence |
| lamentation | to mourn, express grief |
| exuberant | overflowing excitement abundant |
| reprehensible | deserving of reproof, blameworthy |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit |
| untinctured | not tinted or colored, plain |
| censure | strong expression of disapproval |
| expeditiously | promptness, quick |
| insinuating | to suggest or imply |
| ineffectual | not producing proper or intended outcome |
| eccentric | irregular, peculiar, odd, not the norm |
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