zeezeetop103 on April 7, 2010
Holton Class of 2013, Holton 8th Grade
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choler | anger, irritability |
pernicious | causing great harm |
convert | a covered place or shelter; a hiding place |
augmenting | to make greater, as in size, extent or quantity. |
importuned | to plead or urge irksomely, often persistently. |
transgression | a violation of a law, command, or a duty |
propagate | to cause to extend to a broader area, to spread |
gall | bitterness of feeling, rancor |
chastity | virginity |
forsworn | to swear falsely, commit perjury |
marred | having the surface injured or disfigured; blemished by rough wear or injury |
unattainted (untainted) | of reputation |
heretics | a person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
wormwood | a bitter tasting plant |
dug | breast |
prolixity | the state of being tediously prolonged, wordy |
ambling | an unhurried, leisurely walk |
visage | the face or facial expression of a person, countenance |
wit | senses |
alderman | a member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city |
courtier | an attendant at a sovereign's court |
benefice | an ecclesiastical living and church preferment; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service |
begot | cause to exist, produce |
inconstant | changing or varying, especially often and without discernible pattern or reason |
rapier | double-edged sword |
wherefore | for what purpose or reason, why |
solemnity | the trait of dignified seriousness |
portly | comfortably stout, corpulent |
disparagement | communication that belittles somebody or something |
prodigious | impressively great in size, force, or extent |