| A | B |
|---|
| Throng | a great number of persons crowded together |
| edifice | a large, usually impressive building |
| utopia | a place or state of political or social perfection. |
| sepulchers | a burial vault built of rock or stone |
| ponderous | weighty or clumsy |
| congenial | pleasant, friendly |
| physiognomies | the facial features held to show qualities of mine or character by their configuration or expression |
| augured | foretold |
| betokened | given evidence of |
| indubitably | unquestionably |
| antinomian | one who rejects a socially established morality |
| heterodox | holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines |
| farthingale | a support worn in the 16th century beneath a skirt to expand it at the hip line |
| fibre | basic toughness |
| rotundity | rounded |
| behoof | advantage, profit |
| malefactresses | a period who violates the law or does evil |
| trow | believe |
| autumal | a period of maturity or incipient decline |
| baggage | a worthless or contemptible woman |
| heathenish | barbarous |
| beadle | a minor parish official whose duties include usingering and preserving order at services and sometimes civil functions |
| sumptuary | designed to regulate habits or moral on religious grounds |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| ignominy | disgraceful or dishonorable conduct, quality or action |
| meridian | midday, noon |
| iniquity | wickedness |
| visage | appearance |
| spurn | stumble |
| pillory | a means to expose one to public scorn or humility |
| contumely | rude language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt |
| preternatural | exceeding what is natural |
| phantasmagoric | a scene that constantly changes |
| remonstrance | objection |
| cloister | an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| marry | to express amused or surprised agreement |
| expound | to explain in careful and elaborate detail |
| peradventure | perhaps |
| halberds | a weapon consisting typically of a battle ax and pike mounted one handle about 6 feet long |
| sagacity | of keen mind; shrewd |
| ignominious | shameful |
| peremptory | leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal |
| aught | nothing |
| wottest | to have knowledge of or to know |
| vivify | to endure with life or renew life: animate |
| progenitors | an ancestor in the direct line: forefather |
| contumaciously | stubbornly |
| efficacy | effective as a means of remedy |
| mutability | subject to change |
| epoch | a point in time marked by the beginning go a new development or state of things |
| smote | having striked something |
| dearth | scarcity, lack, or famine |
| akin | similar |
| pallid | deficient in color: dull |
| extant | not destroyed or lost |
| cabalistic | esoteric doctrine or mysterious art. |
| forsooth | indeed |
| embowed | arched |
| folio | a book of largest size |
| gilded | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| expatiating | enlarge in in discourse or writing |
| unfeignedly | not pretending |
| benevolence | desiring to do good to others |
| bedizen | to dress in a gaudy or vulgar manner |
| pious | of or pertaining to religious devotion |
| imbibes | to take or receive into the mind |
| indefeasible | not to be annulled or made void |
| emaciated | to make very thing, as to lack nutrition |
| mountebank | any charlatan or quack |
| adduced | to bring forward as in argument or as evidence |
| vehemence | forceful or violent |
| unobtrusive | not conspicuous |
| appellation | an identifying name or title |
| contagion | the spread of an idea, emotion etc |
| intricacies | having many interrelated parts or facets; intricate |
| countenance | to extend approval or toleration of |
| tumult | uproar and confusion: commotion, riot |
| commodiousness | comfortable or conveniently spacious: roomy |
| sexton | an official charged with maintaining church property |
| inimical | having the disposition of an enemy; hostile |
| perforce | by force of circumstances |
| propagate | publicize |
| abasement | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| sooth | truth or reality |
| armorial | of, relating to, or bearing heraldic arms |
| decorously | marked by propriety and good taste |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| palliate | to cover by excuses or apologies |
| somniferous | hypnotic |
| machination | a scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end |
| etherealized | celestially |
| attestation | to be proof of: manifest |
| veneration | commanding respect because of great age or associated dignity |
| somnambulism | sleepwalking |
| expation | to atone for; to make amends for |
| archfiend | a chief friend; Satan |
| scurrilous | grossly and offensively abusive |
| firmament | the vault or arch of the sky: heavens |
| malevolence | arising from intense or vicious ill will, spite or hatred |
| erudite | possessing or displaying erudition; learned |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled: complete |
| despots | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show |
| chasm | a marked division, separation, or difference |
| acquiescing | to accept or comply tacitly or passively |
| behest | an earnest request |
| rankle | to cause persistent keen irritation or bitter resentment |
| propinquity | nearness in place or time |
| verdure | condition of health and vigor |
| sedulous | diligent in application |
| hornbook | a child's reading book consisting of a sheet of parchment or paper protected by a sheet of transparent horn |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| precocity | exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age |
| beneficence | an office to which the revenue from an endowment is attached |
| vivacity | being lively in temper or conduct |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper |
| upbraided | criticized |
| scintillating | to be brilliant or keen as in talent |
| scrofula | a form of tuberculosis |
| loquacity | exceedingly talkative |
| streamlet | a small stream |
| cadence | rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language |
| spectre | something that haunts or perturbs the mind |
| misanthropy | a hatred or distrust of mankind |
| consecration | the act of making or declaring sacred |
| satiating | to satisfy fully |
| sentinel | one that watches or guards |
| budy | to support or sustain |
| tarry | stay |
| estranged | to alienate the affections of |
| colloquy | a conversation especially formal one |
| trammelled | something that restricts activity or free movement |
| subjugated | to bring under dominion: conquer |
| choleric | bad tempered; irritable |
| accosting | address, greeting |
| mollified | soothed in temper to disposition |
| gratuitous | without apparent reason or justification |
| wormwood | something bitter and grievous |
| effervesce | to show liveliness or exhilaration |
| tempestous | turbulent, stormy |
| unbenignantly | acting in a way that is not favorable or beneficial |
| animadversion | adverse and typically ill-natured or unfair criticism |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| sobriety | being sober |
| necromancy | magic, sorcery |
| gradations | a series forming successive stages |
| indefatigabel | incapable of being fatigued |
| unscrupulous | unprincipled |
| necromancer | a person who is believed to communicate with the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future of influencing the course of future events |
| nugatory | having no force, inoperative |
| escutcheon | a protective or ornamental shield |
