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- Impel
- v. To urge to action through moral pressure; drive
- Unalienable
- adj. Not to be separated, given away, or taken away
- Transient
- adj. Passing with time; remaining in a place only a brief time
- Despotism
- n. Rule by or as if by absolute power or authority, tyrannical rule
- Usurpation
- n. A wrongful seizure or exercise of authority or privilege belonging to another; an encroachment
- Evince
- To show or demonstrate clearly
- Prudence
- n. the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters
- Derive
- v. To arrive at by reasoning; deduce or infer
- Rectitude
- n. Moral uprightness; righteousness.
- Absolve
- v. To pronounce clear of guilt or blame
- Magnanimous
- adj. Courageously noble in mind and heart
- Consanguinity
- n. Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor; a close affinity or connection.
- Acquiesce
- v. To consent or comply passively or without protest
- Plunder
- v. To seize wrongfully or by force; steal
- Latticed
- adj. An open framework made of strips of metal, wood, or similar material overlapped or overlaid in a regular, usually crisscross pattern
- Obsequious
- adj. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning
- Mirth
- n. Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
- Shrew
- n. A woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament; a scold
- Pliant
- adj. Easily bent or flexed; pliable
- Malleable
- adj. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure
- Termagant
- adj. Shrewish; scolding or quarrelsome
- Impunity
- n. Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm
- Approbation
- n. An expression of warm approval; praise
- August
- adj. Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic
- Personage
- n. A person; a character in a literary work
- Idleness
- n. the trait of being unoccupied out of reluctance to work
- Precipice
- n. An overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock, such as the face of a cliff
- Countenance
- n. Appearance, especially the expression of the face
- Flagon
- n. A large vessel, usually of metal or pottery, with a handle and spout and often a lid, used for holding wine or other liquors
- Metamorphose
- v. To change into a wholly different form or appearance; transform
- Scepter
- n. A staff held by a sovereign as an emblem of authority
- Harangue
- v. To lecture with emotion, to rant or berate
- Jargon
- n. characteristic language of a particular group
- Comely
- adj. Pleasing and wholesome in appearance; attractive
- Vigil
- n. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours; the act or a period of observing; surveillance
- Abdicate
- (v) to relinquish power formally
- Ablution
- (n) a washing or cleansing of the body, especially as a part of a religious ceremony
- Abscond
- (v) to leave quickly and hide oneself, often to avoid capture or prosecution
- Acrimonious
- (adj) bitter and sharp in language or tone
- Assuage
- (v) to make something less burdensome or painful
- Banal
- (adj) predictable and boring
- Bequeath
- (v) to give by will
- Bedlam
- (n) a state of extreme confusion and disorder
- Bereaved
- (adj) suffering the loss of a loved one
- Bibliophile
- (n) someone who loves books
- Blithe
- (adj) carefree and lighthearted
- Bombastic
- (adj) pretentiously lofty in style or language
- Capacious
- (adj) spacious or roomy
- Caprice
- (n) an impulsive change of mind
- Caustic
- (adj) harsh or corrosive in tone
- Chastise
- (v) to punish or criticize
- Confluence
- (n) the meeting of two or more streams
- Consternation
- (n) fear resulting from awareness of danger
- Contagion
- (n) disease transmitted by direct or indirect contact
- Contuse
- (v) to bruse
- Copious
- (adj) large in quantity, abundant
- Coquette
- (n) a flirt (a woman)
- Denizen
- (n) an inhabitant, a resident
- Deride
- (v) to treat with contempt, to ridicule
- Archaic
- (adj) old, from an earlier time period
- Discord
- (n) lack of agreement between persons, groups or things
- Doleful
- (adj) filled with or evoking sadness
- Bourne
- (n) a small stream (also, archaic term for boundary)
- Carpetbagger
- (n) A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage.
- Scalawag
- (n) A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction.
- Abridge
- (v) to cut, (to shorten)
- Superfluity
- (n) an excess, an overabundance
- Abomination
- (n) A cause of loathing or disgust
- Abrogation
- (n) the act of doing away with something
- Ameliorate
- (v) to improve something or make it better
- Avid
- (adj) Having a passionate desire or unbounded craving
- Blasphemy
- (n) Speaking out against the beliefs of the church
- Callously
- (adv) coldheartedly, insensitively
- Concede
- (v) yielding or granting to a wish or request
- Conciliatory
- (adj) appeasing, making or willing to make concessions or compromises
- Congeries
- (n) a collection or assortment of things
- Contentious
- (adj) always ready to argue, quarrelsome
- Covenant
- (n) a promise, a binding agreement, a compact
- Daft
- (adj) crazy
- Deference
- (n) yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another
- Diametrically
- (adv) on opposite ends, contrary
- Effrontery
- (n) presumptuous and bold behavior
- Presumptuous
- (adj) Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward
- Embodiment
- (n) the state of representing in a physical form
- Evasive
- (adv) avoiding answering a question or accusation
- Faction
- (n) a dissenting minority
- Dissent
- (v) to differ in opinion or feeling, to disagree
- Gait
- (n) a particular way of walking
- Gaunt
- (adj) thin to the point of looking starved or emaciated
- Harlot
- (n) middle English for prostitute
- Theocracy
- (n) A government ruled by or subject to religious authority
- Alacrity
- n. eagerness, willingness, cheerful readiness
- Visage
- n. facial expression, appearance
- Placid
- adj. calm, peaceful
- Virago
- n. dominating woman