A | B |
esteem | regard with respect |
obscured | indistinctly heard; faint |
boisterous | rough and stormy; violent |
alderman | a member of the municipal legislative body |
benefice | a church office endowed with fixed capital assets |
purged | to free from impurities |
loathe | to dislike (someone or something) greatly |
iamb | A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed |
meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
pentameter | A line of poetry that has five metrical feet; 10 sylables |