| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cudgel | a club that is used as a weapon |
| infernal | extremely evil or cruel; hellish |
| ineffable | defying expression or description |
| obdurate | showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; hard |
| brook | put up with something or somebody unpleasant |
| sundered | to break apart |
| maxim | a common saying expressing a principle of conduct |
| imbibe | take in liquids, also metaphorically |
| execrate | find repugnant |
| impudence | the trait of being rude and impertinent |
| availed | to try, attempt |
| subversion | an overthrow, as from the foundation |
| abhorrence | hate coupled with disgust |
| prudence | discretion in practical affairs |
| hewing | making or shaping with an ax |
| profligate | recklessly wasteful |
| sagacity | ability to make good judgments; wise |
| ague | a fit of shivering |
| quailed | to shrink back in fear, cower |
| perdition | hell; eternal damnation |
| redress | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil; compensation |
| imputation | the attribution to a source or cause |
| exculpate | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
| covert | secret or hidden |
| culvert | a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway |
| gaunt | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| ignominy | a state of dishonor |
| vagrant | a state of dishonor, a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place to work |
| cynosure | something that strongly attracts attention and admiration |
| cantankerous | stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate |
| fallow | undeveloped land but potentially useful |
| wont | an established custom |
| repression | to hold back; restrain |
| bellicose | having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
| belligerent | characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight |
| truculent | aggressively hostile |
| supplication | a humble request for help from someone in authority |
| docile | easily handled or managed |
| bucolic | a country person |
| vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) |
| conjecture | reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence |
| transgression | the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit |
| arbiter | someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue |
| choleric | quickly aroused to anger |
| fetid | offensively malodorous; smelly |
| doleful | filled with or evoking sadness |
| denizen | a plant or animal naturalized in a region |
| comely | very pleasing to the eye |
| zenith | point directly overhead in the sky |
| zealous | marked by active interest and enthusiasm |
| luminary | an object that gives light |
| jocose | characterized by jokes and good humor |
| bumptious | offensively self-assertive |
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