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Murder in the Cathedral vocab 2
quiz on 2nd half of the 30 terms from murder in the cathedral
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| supplication | to ask humbly or earnestly for |
| intractable | obstinate |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reasons of excess |
| spleen | the seat of emotions or passions, melancholy, feelings of ill will or anger often suppressed, carpice |
| insolence | overbearing, imprudent, proud |
| clemency | merciful, pleasant mildness of weather |
| anathema | one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority and is usually excommunicated, someone/thing that is loathed or disliked, a vigorous denunciation |
| evince | to display clearly, reveal |
| mendicant | beggar, friar |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct, especially by a public office |
| putrid | rotten, foul, morally corrupt |
| arrogated | to claim or seize w/out justification, assume, to claim on behalf of someone, ascribe |
| appropriated | to take exclusive possession of, annex, to set apart for a particular purpose or use, to take or make use of w/out authority or right |
| statecraft | the art of conducting state affairs |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desire, lascivious, bawd |
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