| A | B |
|---|
| edifice | a large building |
| sepulchers | tombs |
| ponderous | extremely heavy |
| congenial | commpatible; suitable |
| frailty | weakness |
| physiognomies | faces |
| augured | foretold; indicated |
| heterodox | unorthodox |
| infamy | negative fame; bad reputation |
| rotundity | roundness |
| pruport | meaning; intention |
| grisly | horrifying; ghastly |
| fertility | reproductive capacity |
| sumptuaty | costly; lavish |
| evanescent | fading away |
| ignominy | disgrace |
| ignominious | disgraceful |
| visage | face |
| pillory | place where one is exposed to public humiliation |
| heterogeneous | different in kind |
| intervolutions | circles within cirlces |
| iniquity | sin |
| peradventure | perhaps |
| sage | wise |
| unadulterated | pure; not contaminated |
| lurid | harshly vivid or terrible |
| insubordination | not submitting to authority |
| sagamores | elective ruler or chief |
| peremptory | with no opportunity for denial |
| alchemy | medieval chemistry |
| sojourn | journey |
| efficacy | power to produce results |
| leech | doctor |
| retribution | revenge |
| paramour | lover |
| amenable | agreeable |
| iscrutable | mysterious |
| assimilate | to take in and be alike |
| progenitors | ancestors |
| plebeian | common; vulgar |
| emolument | profit from employment; fees; salary |
| ascetic | one who practices extreme self-denial |
| superfluous | more than is necessary |
| penitence | payment for sin |
| exhortation | urging |
| insidious | deceitful; treacherous |
| venerable | deserving of respect |
| contumaciously | stubbornly disobedient; rebellious |
| rustic | crude; uncouth |
| mutability | changeability |
| imbibing | absorbing; assimilating |
| caprice | unpredictable change |
| sprite | impish fairy |
| conjuration | summoning a devil harmed or destroyed by violence |
| anathema | a hated thing |
| enmity | bitter feelings |
| perpetuated | continued |
| preternatural | beyond that which is natural |
| phantasmagoric | related to figures of fantasy |
| fain | well-pleased; glad |
| ejaculation | a short, sudden exclamation |
| subtile | subtle; elusive; cunning; crafty |
| gesticulation | gesturing |
| labyrinth | maze |
| inauspicious | unlucky; ill-omened |
| ludicrous | laughably absurd |
| eminence | high rank |
| pristine | pure; unsoiled; uncorrupted |
| imperious | arrogant |
| cabalistic | plotting |
| armoter | maker of armor |
| exigencies | urgent needs |
| pestilence | something that is destructive of life |
| perversity | willfull wrongdoing |
| indefeasible | cannot be set aside or made void |
| requital | in return for |
| mountebank | charlatan; quack doctor |
| appellation | name |
| apothecary | druggist |
| pharmacopoeia | book containing list of drugs |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity |
| parochial | church-related; limited in range or scope |
| affinity | natural liking |
| sagacious | of sound judgement; wise |
| erudition | profound learning through study |
| refutation | act of disproving |
| importunate | at a bad time |
| machinations | acts of plotting |
| inextricable | not able to get out of |
| scurrilous | obscenely abusive |
| latent | hidden |
| presentiment | foreboding of evil |
| scourge | to whip |
| impalpable | unable to be touched |
| ethereal | airy;light |
| abomination | something hated |
| typify | to serve as a model |
| decorously | proper |
| palliate | to conceal the seriousness by giving excuses |
| somnambulism | sleepwalking |
| expiation | making amends for wrongdoing |
| luminary | celestial body giving off light |
| torpid | sluggish |
| benevolence | feeling of good will |
| propensity | strong inclination toward |
| emaciated | thin to the point of starvation |
| acquiescing | going along with |
| accosted | approached in a challenging or aggressive way |
| inviolable | incapable of being harmed or destroyed by violence |
