| Term | Definition |
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| affront | noun-a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult |
| beneficent | adj.-doing good or causing good to be done; conferring benefits; kindly in action or purpose |
| depreciatory | adj.-Diminishing in value. |
| descry | verb-to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern |
| efficacy | noun-capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness |
| epitaph | noun-a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site. |
| excrescence | noun-an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body. |
| felicitous | adj.-well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate;pleasant |
| fortuitous | adj.-happening or produced by chance; accidental |
| impertinent | adj. intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil, not pertinent or relevant; irrelevant |
| maudlin | adj. tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness |
| ostentatious | adj. characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others, intended to attract notice |
| paroxysm | n. any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: |
| propitiation | n. the act of making favorably inclined; conciliateing. |
| remonstrance | n. a protest |
| reproach | v. to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure. |
| sanctify | v. to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.to purify or free from sin: |
| stolid | adj. having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| subterfuge | n.deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| supercilious | adj. coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| trepidation | n. timorous uncertain agitation : apprehension |
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