| ordained | predestined |
| patrimony | an inheritance from a father or other ancestor |
| baleful | deadly, sinister |
| buffets | to strike against forcefully |
| relent | to give in |
| renown | the state of being famous |
| retainers | a servant or attendant |
| din | a jumble of loud and harsh sounds |
| engendering | to bring into existence |
| divining and divination | to know by inspiration, prediction |
| sage | having wisdom |
| lament | mourn |
| cunning | given ability to deceive |
| shroud | a cloth used to wrap a body for burial |
| foreboding | to indicate the likelihood of, portend; to prophecy or predict |
| malice | extreme ill will or spite |
| insolent | extremely disrespectful |
| precedence | claimed or received because of superiority |
| hekatomb | a sacrifice of 100 oxen/cattle |
| stratagem | military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy |
| pacify | to ease anger or agitation of |
| rite | a ceremonial act or series of acts |
| mulled | to ponder extensively |
| illustrious | well-known, distinguished |
| lithe | flexible, limber |
| desolation | ruin, devestation |
| revel | to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck, retract, pull back |
| surfeit | overindulgence in food or drink |
| dissemble | to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance |
| clamor | to exclaim insistently and noisily |