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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| beadle | minor church official who helps to keep order during serivces |
| contumely | an insult |
| ignomity | dishonor, shame |
| inauspicious | boding ill; unfavorable |
| mien | appearance |
| physiognomies | outward appearance |
| pillory | wooden post with holes for hands+heads; public ridicule |
| remonstrance | complaint; protest |
| sagacity | soundness of judgement |
| vie | to strive in completition for; contend to superiority |
| anathemas | curses, denunciations, bad wishes |
| draught | drink/dose, taken by inhaling or drinking |
| efficacy | effectiveness |
| expostulation | complaint |
| gesticulation | animated gesture |
| paramour | lover; beloved person |
| phantasmagoric | displaying optical illusion; changing scenery |
| quaff | drink heartily |
| sable | black clothes worn in mourning |
| uncogenial | disagreeable; not pleasing |
| cabalistic | mystic |
| chirurgical | part of surgery |
| contagion | spreading of attictude, emotion or idea |
| deportment | demeanor |
| despondent | feeling or showing no hope |
| emancipated | abnormally thin; unhealthily thin |
| erudition | knowledge acquired by means of studying |
| imperious | dictatorial; urgent; commanding |
| leech | name for 1600s doctor; clings to another life for personal gain |
| pestilence | epidemic; evil |
| apotheosize | glorify; deify |
| audacity | boldness; daring without personal regard |
| contiguous | close by; touching |
| erratic | deviating from the norm |
| gait | a manner of walking |
| indefatigable | incapable of being tired out |
| morion | helmet worn by 16/17th cnetury soldiers |
| necromancy | divination via communication with the dead |
| pathos | pity or compassion |
| repugnance | strong distaste or adversion; objection |
| asperity | severity of manner or tone |
| austerity | stern coldness in appearance and manner |
| despotic | tyrannical, holding absolute power |
| effluence | something that flows out; outward expression |
| enigma | person of contradicting character |
| gibe | taunts |
| innate | not learned, existing in one from birth |
| petulant | sudden impatience or irritation |
| proffered | offered/proposed for onces acceptance or rejection |
| requital | return or reward for service; kindness |
| colloquy | conversation |
| consecration | act of giving sacramental character; sacredness |
| denizen | inhabitant, resident |
| dryad | deity or nymph of the woods |
| harrowed | distressed the mind |
| hillock | a little hill |
| loquacity | talkativeness |
| mediative | deeply thoughtful; contemplative |
| transmuting | changing between one form and another |
| vestige | mark or tarce; evidence something is no longer evident or there |
| depredation | the act of robbery or plundering |
| disquietude | the state of disturbance |
| jocularity | joking |
| languor | physical weakness; lack of energy |
| obeisance | a bow of curtsey; respect |
| potentate | power; ruler; monarch |
| prattle | talk foolishly |
| preternatural | unnatural |
| uncouth | rude; uncivilized |
| vicissitude | an unexpected change |
| demerits | punishments for bad behavior |
| etheral | light; airy |
| expiation | means of atonement or reparation |
| inextricable | incapable of being disentangled |
| inimical | involved; unable to undone or solved |
| ominous | foreboding; threatening |
| portent | indication/omen of |
| scurrilous | obscenely abusive, insulting, offensive, vulgar |
| somnambulism | sleepwalking |
| zenith | highest point |
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