| Term | Definition |
|---|
| gendarme | a police officer in any of the 7 european countries |
| salutation | the act of saluting |
| lackey | a follower; toady; a footman |
| scullion | a kitchen servant who does menial work |
| garret | an attic |
| precipitately | to cast down; fling or hurl down |
| formidable | causing fear, apprehension or dread |
| prefecture | the office, jurisdiction, territory or residence of a perfect |
| dissected | botany. deeply divided into numerous segments |
| collated | to gather or arrange in the proper sequence |
| injunctions | the act of enjoying; a command or order |
| vagabond | wandering from place to place without any settlement home; nomadic |
| urking | to irritate |
| untoward | unfavorable or unfortunate |
| enchroached | to take ones possessions or rights gradually |
| incorruptible | not corruptible |
| diligence | constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is under taken |
| transfiguration | the state of being transfigured |
| imperious | urgent |
| prudence | caution |
| edifice | a large building |
| prodigious | extrodinary in size |
| deference | respectful or corteous regard |
| evinced | to prove |
| auditory | the sense of hearing |
| denegations | denial |
| palpitated | to quiver, throb or tremble |
| sepulchral | serving as a tomb |
| impetuously | a sudden rash action or emotion |
| unfathomable | difficlult or impossible to understand |
| dilated | to make wider or larger; cause to expand |
| abashed | ahamed or embarassed |
| ecclesiastical | relating to church |
| adept | very skilled; proficient; expert |
| monseigneur | a french title of honor given to princes, bishops and other people of emince |
| apparation | an act of appearing; manifestation |
| stupefaction | overwhelming amazement |
| ignominy | disgrace; dishonor |
| famished | extremlt hungry |
| repentant | characterized by or showing repentence |
| countenance | the face; visage |
| oratory | skill or eloquence in public speaking |
| recompensed | to repay |
| aperture | an opening |
| effaced | to wipeout; to rub out; erase |
| remonstrated | to say or plead in protest |
| fluctuation | change from one point or condition to another |
| livid | enraged; angry |
| timorous | full of fear |
| cleave | to split or cut |
| perdition | a state of final spiritual ruin |
| lurid | gruesome |
| inarticulate | unable to use articulate speech |
| lolling | hanging or drooping waxy |
| lackadaisical | lazy |
| indomitable | uncontrolably |
| enigma | puzzling |
| calumnies | false, malicious statements |
| veneration | act of regarding or treating with respect |
| vertiable | being truely or very much so; true |
| extricate | to release |
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