A | B |
Abominable | Disgusting; hateful |
Amend | Improve |
Apothecary | Druggist; pharmacist |
Avarice | Too great a desire for wealth |
Bequest | A gift left by means of a will |
Blasphemy | Mockery (of God) |
Concede | To grant |
Credentials | Evidence of a person’s position |
Daunted | Intimidated |
Efficacious | Effective |
Excommunication | To deprive the right of church membership |
Extort | To gain by or get by threat |
Grisly | Terrifying |
Implore | The act of begging |
Lineage | Ancestry |
Miscreant | Criminals; literally, “unbelievers |
Pallor | Paleness |
Pestilence | The plague on something |
Privy | Secretive; privileged |
Prowess | Outstanding ability |
Prudent | Careful; cautious |
Scurrility | Vulgar or abusive language |
Subtle | Not immediately obvious, operating in a hidden way |
Suffice | Satisfy |
Superfluity | Excess |
Surmount | To overcome |
Temporal | Limited to this world; not spiritual |
Vengeance | Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed, retribution |
Wary | On guard; watchful |
Wimpled | Wrinkled |