| Term | Definition |
|---|
| presage | (v.) to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow |
| misadventure | (n.) an instance of bad fortune; mishap |
| straight | (adv.) directly; without detour or delay |
| penury | (n.) extreme poverty; destitution |
| disperse | (v.) to spread widely; disseminate |
| apothecary | (n.) one that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist |
| ducat | (n.) gold coin |
| famine | (n.) any extreme and general scarcity; extreme hunger; starvation |
| pestilence | (n.) a deadly or virulent epidemic disease |
| beshrew | (v.) to curse; invoke evil upon |
| aloof | (adv.) at a distance, esp. in feeling or interest; apart |
| obsequies | (n.) funeral rites or ceremonies |
| strew | (v.) to spread here and there; scatter |
| inexorable | (adj.) unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties |
| peruse | (v.) to survey or examine in detail |
| inter | (v.) to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury |
| inauspicious | (adj.) not auspicious; boding ill; ill--omened; unfavorable |
| unthrifty | (adj.) unfortunate |
| sepulcher | (n.) a tomb, grave, or burial place |
| impeach | (v.) to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office |
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