| Term | Definition |
|---|
| conflagration | a long, destructive fire |
| languidly | in a manner lacking energy or vitality |
| diffident | lacking self confidence |
| meritorious | deserving reward or praise |
| assiduity | persistent diligence |
| obsequious | full of or exhibiting servile compliance |
| inveterate | firmly and long established |
| rubicund | inclined to a healthy rosiness |
| wan | unnaturally pale, as from distress |
| untenable | being such that defense or maintenance is impossible |
| engender | to cause to exist or develope |
| fain | compelled |
| insurmountable | incapable of being overcome |
| incurred | became subject or liable to |
| repugnance | strong dislike, distaste, or antagonism |
| imploringly | in an entreating, praying, or begging manner |
| doleful | causing grief or affliction |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrong doing |
| recompense | payment in return for something such as a service |
| vacillating | swinging indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another |
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