| A | B |
|---|
| hearth | fireside; family life |
| supplication | a humble plea |
| lamentation | an expression of sorrow or mourning |
| altar | an elevated platform used for burning incense |
| chaplet | a wreath for the head |
| pyre | a combustible heap for burning a body |
| sphinx | a winged monster who destroyed all who could not answer its riddle |
| augury | the art, ability, or practice of arguing |
| oracle | a shrine consecrated to a prophetic god |
| defilement | corruption, or to make filthy or dirty |
| compunction | uneasiness caused by guilt or remorse |
| besieger | a pearson who lays questions onto another, or surrounds another person |
| proclamation | an announcement made publicly |
| edict | a proclamation or decree |
| solemnly | the act of doing something with gloom, or with gravity |
| begetting | to father or sire |
| clairvoyant | a person who can perceive thing beond human sences |
| pestilence | a fatal epidemic, or disease |
| divination | the act of foretelling the future |
| decrepit | old, or rotting away |
