| Term | Definition |
|---|
| impertinent | inappropriate, incongruous, or absurd///intrusive or presumptuous; insolently rude |
| intimation | slight suggestion or vague understanding/// |
| odiousness | highly offensive, repugnant, disgusting nature///the quality of being offensive |
| deference | submission or courteous yielding to the opinion or wishes of another/// |
| cudgel | a short, thick stick used as a weapon///club |
| evinced | to show clearly; make evident///manifest |
| privation | lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life/// |
| reposed | to put (confidence, trust, etc.) in a person or thing///to depend or rely on a person or thing |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed or described in words///inexpressible |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding///subbornly resistant to moral influence |
| sundered | to break or wrench apart; sever/// |
| imbibe | to receive or absorb into the mind and retain///to take in the mind |
| execrate | to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce///to detest utterley; abhor; abominate |
| impudence | effrontery; insolence///the quality of being offensively bold |
| immutable | not subject or susceptible to change; definite///unchangeable; changeless |
| debasing | lowering in character, quality, or value; degrading///used of conduct; characterized by dishonor |
| consummate | complete or perfect///being of the highest or moste extreme degree |
| depravity | moral corruption///moral corruption or degredation |
| chattel | slave///tangible property |
| divest | to strip or deprive/// |
| prudence | caution, discretion///caution with regard to practical matters |
| unabated | undiminished/// |
| stulified | rendered absurd or foolish///useless or ineffectual |
| felicitous | well suited or appropriate///well-suited for the occasion |
| perspicacity | keeness of understanding/// |
| canard | a false or baseless story///usually a derogatory report or rumor |
| profligate | recklessly wasteful///utterly and shamelessly immoral |
| dissipation | a wasting by misuse///dissolute way of living |
| impassable | unable to be surmounted///impossible to pass, cross, or overcome |
| piety | reverence for God///devout fulfillment of religious obligations |
| exhorter | preacher or clergyman///one who exhorts or incites, urges, or advises |
| sagacity | acuteness of discernment/// |
| pernicious | harmful or ruinous/// |
| forte | strong point/// |
| apostrophe | direct address to something absent/// |
| quail(ed) | shrank back in fear, cowered/// |
| staid | steady, composed, regular///of settled or sedate character |
| imprudent | incautious, rash, lacking discretion/// |
| imbue | to inspire with feelings///to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc. |
| impropriety | incorrectness or inappropriatepness///unsuitableness |
| redress | compensation or satisfaction for a wrong///the setting right of what is wrong |
| exculpate | to clear from guilt or fault/// |
| commensurate | having the same measure/// |
| ardor | fever or passion///great warmth or feeling |
| palpably | clearly or tangibly///so as to have readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc. |
| Habiliment | clothes for a particular profession/// |
| vestige | a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence |
| odium | intense hatred or dislike |
| emaciated | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| offal | the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible hy human beings; carrion |
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