| A | B |
|---|
| vehement | strongly emotional; intense or passionate: |
| adduce | vb ( tr ) to cite (reasons, examples, etc) as evidence or proof |
| promulgate | to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.). |
| grievous | causing grief or great sorrow: |
| pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: |
| delinquencies | failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: |
| penance | a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin. |
| clemency | the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy. |
| abhorent | utterly opposed, or contrary, or in conflict |
| penitent | feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite. |
| bolster | to prop up |
| feistiness | full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: |
| admonition | a warning or reproof given by an eccleslastical authority. |
