| Term | Definition |
| sentry | a person employed to watch for something to happen |
| assess | to estimate the value of for taxation |
| insistently | being persistent in demands |
| poverty | the estate of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
| decency | the quality of being polite and respectable |
| ous | brutal or very disagreeable or dangerous |
| dominion | power or the use of power; sovereignty over something |
| contemptible | worthy only of being despised and rejected; deserving of scorn |
| legionaries | soldiers who are members of legions |
| efficiently | being effective without wasting time or effort or expense |
| patriots | a person who loves their county and will fight for it if necessary |
| scholarly | relating to serious academic study |
| salvage | the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction |
| disdain | lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike |
| unfathomable | difficult or impossible to understand |
| habitually | done constantly; regularly; formed or acquired bycontinual use |
| procure | get by special effort; obtained; acquired |
| contamination | to make impure, infected or corrupt |
| leavening | the act or process of fermenting a product |
| despoil | steal goods; take as spoil; destroy and strip of possessions or plunder |