- amenities: comforts and conveniences
- coveted: longed for
- deplorable: regretable; very bad
- depreciate: belittle; lower the value of
- disarming: removing or lessening suspicions or fears
- discern: see, detect by lookin carefully
- disconsolate: very unhappy
- doggedness: stubbornness; persistence
- enunciate: pronounce; articulate
- exorbitant: much too high in price or amount
- frivolous: silly; not as serious as the occasion requires
- imminent: near; about to happen
- imprudent: unwise
- incantation: chant of words or phrases that is meant to produce a magical result
- incessantly: constantly; continually
- indolently: lazily
- infallibility: inability to make a mistake
- instigates: gives rise to
- intravenously: directly into a vein
- litany: repetitive prayer or recitation
- odyssey: extended journey marked by wandering, adventure, and changes of fortune
- opiate: anything that sooths or calls something
- oppressive: heavy;hard to endure
- palpable: easily felt or touched
- pauper: very poor person
- polytheism: belief in more then one god.
- precariously: unsteadily; insecurely
- precariously: unsteadily; in an unstable manner
- privations: hardships;lack of the things needed for a happy, healthy life.
- ramparts: broad embankments surrounding a castle, fort, or city for defense against attack
- reiterated: repeated
- scourge: cause of serious trouble or great suffering
- scruples: feelings of doubt or guilt about a suggested action
- scrutiny: close inspection
- solicitously: in a concerned manner
- stifled: smothered
- supplication: humble plea or request