| Term | Definition |
|---|
| pernicious | Causing death or injury; deadly |
| augment | grow or intensify |
| portentous | Ominous; portending evil |
| importune | Harass with persistent requests |
| propagate | transmit or cause to broaden or spread |
| purge | rid of impurities |
| posterity | Descendants or those who come after |
| mar | make imperfect |
| languish | To lose strength and become weak |
| disposition | a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing |
| hoodwink | conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end |
| visage | the appearance conveyed by a person's face |
| courtier | an attendant at the court of a sovereign |
| benefice | an endowed church office giving income to its holder |
| knave | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel |
| disparagement | a communication that belittles somebody or something |
| demesnes | territory over which rule or control is exercised |
| invocation | the act of appealing for help |
| consort | The spouse of a monarch |
| enmity | The quality of being an enemy |
| impute | attribute or credit to |
| wanton | behave extremely cruelly and brutally |
| rancor | esentment: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will |
| bandy | discuss lightly |
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