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beget to produce; to make happen educe to draw or bring out glean to collect bit by bit; to gather with patient labor chafe to wear or irritate, often through rubbing or friction effrontery shameless boldness imbibe to drink (especially alcohol) feign to pretend desist to stop; discontinue allude to hint at, to refer to indirectly elite the choice members or best of a group bilk to cheat or swindle; to thwart homily a sermon demise death; a ceasing to exist emit to send out; to give forth, as in sound or light decadence moral deterioration aghast feeling great dismay or horror granary a storehouse for grain choleric easily angered impede to hinder, obstruct qualm a feeling of uneasiness lampoon a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone narcissistic conceited; having excessive self-love or admiration eradicate to wipe out; to destroy fabricate to concoct; to make up a story in order to deceive ghastly horrible; frightful fallible capable of error blatant obvious; too conspicuous dawdle to waste time affiliate an associate; partner fawn to act slavishly submissive calumny a false and malicious accusation berate to scold or rebuke severely and at length minion a fawning, servile follower desolate lonely; forlorn; uninhabited; barren bane the cause of ruin, harm, distress, or death pacify to calm down garble to mix up or distort prevaricate to lie filch to steal neophyte a beginner carp to complain or to find fault in a petty or nagging way emissary one sent on a special mission to represent others facade a deceptive outward appearance flagrant glaringly bad; outrageous fracas a loud quarrel or fight futile useless; pointless gait manner of walkng genesis beginning; origin immaculate spotless; perfect kindred haveing simular origin, nature, or character lacerate to tear (flesh) jaggedly nefarious very wicked; notorious patrician an aristocrat query to ask; inquire queue a line of people or vehicles deluge a flood; an owerwhelming rush catholic universal; wide-ranging eerie weird; mysterious; strange and frightening martial warlike; relateing to the military antropomorphic attributing hman characteristics or qualities to objects, amimals, or gods beneficiary one who recives benefits careen to serve or lurh from side to side while in motion aplomb self-confidence guile slyness and cunning in dealing with others modicum a small amount fester to grow embittered overtime; to rot languish to become weak or feable; to loss strenght pall something that covers or conceals havoc great destruction; chaos rancid having a bad taste or smell; spoiled holocaust a great or complete destruction of life embroil to draw into conflict or fight anachronism somthing or someone existing outside of its proper time denigrate to attack the reputation of; to speak ill of humane kind; compassionate effusive emotionally excessive; overly demostrative defunct no longer in existence lackey a slavish follower envisage to form a mental picture lament to mourn gape to stare with an open mouth impertinent rude and disrespectful haughty arrogant; proud nemesis someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy lethal deadly; fatal catalyst n. a person, thing, or agent that causes or speeds up a reaction or change without itself being changed jargon n. vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people judicious adj. showing sound judgment foible n. a minor weakness in character benediction n. the act of blessing frivolous adj. trivial; silly alacrity n. liveliness; willingness; eagerness deify v. to make a god of; to look upon or worship as a god carnage n. bloody and extensive slaughter impel v. push into motion epitaph v. an inscription on a tombstone; a brief comment about a deceased person harp v. to persist in talking continuously (on or about something) lateral adj. of or relating to the side pallid adj. pale; faint in color impetuous adj. acting suddenly without thought