| Term | Definition |
|---|
| vestige | something left, behind, last remainder |
| odium | strongly negative feelings |
| emaciated | having far too little body fat |
| offal | discarded material, internal organs as food |
| forte | one's strong point |
| apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically |
| quailed | to recoil in dread or terror |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint |
| imprudent | lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgement |
| imbue | to permeate or influence |
| impropriety | the quality or state of being improper |
| redress | to exact reparation for |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| palpably | easily perceptible |
| habiliment | characteristic apparatus |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| dissipation | wasteful expenditure, or excessive drinking |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, or surmounted |
| piety | a conventional belief or standard, or dutifulness in religion |
| exhorter | giver of warnings or advice |
| sagacity | keen sense of perception |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive |
| depravity | corrupt act or practice |
| chattel | an item of tangible movable or immovable property |
| divest | to take away from a person/to deprive |
| prudence | caution or circumspection as to danger or risk |
| unabated | being at full strength or force |
| stultified | to cause to appear or to be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed |
| perspicacity | the acute mental vision or discernment |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| impertinent | intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions |
| intimation | a slight suggestion or vague understanding |
| odiousness | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance |
| deference | affected or ingratiating regard for another's wishes |
| cudgel | a short heavy club |
| evinced | to display clearly |
| privation | lack of what is needed for existence |
| reposed | to rest for support |
| ineffable | incapable of being uttered or expressed in words |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrong doing |
| sundered | to become parted, disunited, or severed |
| imbibe | to assimilate or take into solution |
| execrate | declared to be evil or detestable |
| impudence | marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| debasing | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| consummate | of the highest degree |
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