| 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 |