English 11-15
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- perpetuity
- the state or character of being perpetual (forever)
- perquisite
- privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages
- postern
- a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- capacious
- spacious;roomy
- pestilence
- any type of deadly epidemic disease
- carrion
- dead and putrefying flesh
- defilement
- to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase
- villainy
- the actions or conduct of a villain; outrageous wickedness
- pander
- a go-between in amorous intrigues
- abhorred
- to regard with horror or loathing; detest
- caprices
- an impulsive change of mind
- countenance
- appearance, esp. the look or expression of the face
- expedient
- tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose
- purblind
- wholly blind (Archaic term)
- penury
- extreme poverty; destitution
- cursory
- going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty
- progeny
- a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal
- dotard
- an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person
- odious
- deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- hogshead
- a large cask, esp. one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters)
- anarchy
- A: absence of government B: the state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority
- clairvoyant
- one having the power of clairvoyance (physic powers)
- ardent
- characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent
- harrowing
- distressing; agonizing
- piteous
- evoking or deserving pity; pathetic
- crone
- a withered, witchlike old woman
- temporizer
- to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting
- dilate
- to make larger; cause to expand
- lustration
- to purify by means of ceremony
- wretched
- miserable; pitiable
- rankling
- to cause persistent irritation or resentment
- ignoble
- not noble; of humble descent or rank
- firmament
- the vault or expanse of the heavens; the sky
- cipher
- a person of no influence; nonentity; zero
- insufficience
- deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy
- obliterate
- to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely
- physiognomy
- the outward appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into its character
- impudently
- of, pertaining to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery
- contagion
- an infection
- furlong
- A unit for measuring distance, equal to 1/8 mile (201 meters)
- paroxysm
- a sudden outbursts of emotion or action
- affliction
- a cause of pain, suffering, or distress
- indefatigable
- incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue
- smutched
- To soil or stain (smudged)
- goad
- A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals
- prognosticate
- to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy
- oblivion
- the state of being completely forgotten or unknown
- calumny
- a false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation
- emaciate
- to make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation
- pallid
- pale; faint or deficient in color