- adulterate: to make impure, to contaminate
- bucolic: pertaining to the countryside; rural, rustic
- caveat: a warning
- defile: to pollute, to corrupt
- diadem: a crown
- emanate: to come forth; to send forth
- garish: tastelessly gaudy
- gratuitous: unnecessary or uncalled for
- idolatry: excessive or blind adoration; worship of an object
- immutable: unchangeable, fixed
- impecunious: without money; penniless
- impious: disrespectful towards God
- onus: a burden, responsibility, obligation
- redolent: having a pleasant odor; suggestive or evocative
- sedition: rebellion or resistance against the government