| A | B |
|---|
| profane(ers) | disrespect; contempt (for the law) |
| pernicious | harmful |
| augmenting | supplementing, increasing |
| portentous | foreshadowing a coming of events or series |
| chaste | sexually pure |
| posterity | all future generations of offspring |
| languish | to be in a state of depression, grief, or weakness |
| heretics | people who maintain religious beliefs contrary to accepted doctrines |
| obscured | shrouded or hidden, not easily seen |
| boisterous | coarse, rowdy, stormy, tumultuous |
| purged | removed of undesired elemetns, purified |
