| Term | Definition |
| chortled | a loug gleeful chuckle |
| epistle | a letter or note |
| mausoleum | a magnificent tomb |
| empathize | to understand what someone is feeling or going through |
| awry | wrong; amiss |
| crypt | a room below the main floor of the church used for burial |
| cadavers | a corspe; dead body |
| frantic | wildly excited or agitated by anxiety |
| famished | to suffer from extreme hunger |
| beseeched | to request earnestly |
| wrath | anger; indignation |
| supplication | to ask humbly for |
| divine | heavenly; godlike |
| lineage | descendants of a certain ancestor |
| languishing | to exist in miserable conditions |