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| Transylvania | is a historical region in central and westernm Romania. |
| Compatriots | Fellow countrymen |
| Edict | Official statemetn; law |
| Firmament | the sky or heaven |
| Hermetically | completely sealed; airtight |
| Pestilential | filled with disease |
| phylacteries | small boxes containing scripture |
| truncheon | a police officer's stick |
| bestial | like a beast or animal |
| blandishments | something used to coax |
| betrothal | a mutual promise to marry |
| contagion | an influence that spreads rapidly |
| vigilance | state of extreme watchfullness |
| Mountebank | One who attracts customers with tricks or jokes |
| Gallows | a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging |
| derision | a lack of politeness; the failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others |
| antechamber | a smaller room or vestibule serving as an entryway into a larger one |
