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| edifice | a building, especially one of impsing appearance or size |
| utopia | 1. any condition, place, or situation of social or political reform |
| beetle browed | jutting; overhanging |
| ponderous | 1. having great weight; massive; huge 2. gracless or unweildy in weight |
| inauspicious | not fortunate or posperous; ill omened |
| indubitably | in a manner too apparent to be doubted; unquestionably |
| heterodox | not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially church dogma |
| demeanor | deportment; manner; behavior |
| farthingale | hoop or skirt over hoop 16th and 17th century |
| beadle | minor church official whose duties include keeping order and ushering during services; he also walks before processions |
| prefigured | suggested; indicated; represented by a model; foreshadowed |
| sumptuary | 1. regulating or limiting expenses 2. regulating personal behavior on moral or religious grounds |
| evanescent | vanishing or likely to vanish; transitory; fleeting |
| ignominy | 1. dishonor; infamy 2. a disgraceful act or conduct |
| brazen | 1. made of brass 2. having a loud resonate sound 3. impudent; bold |
| papist | 1. a roman catholic; often used disparagingly |
| contumely | rudeness or contempt in behavior or speech; insolence |
| spectral | of or resembling a specter; ghostly |
| prenaturally | abnormally; exeptionally; in a way that differs from what is natural |
| remonstrance | a speech or gesture or protest, objection, or reproof |
| intervolutions | intertwining coils |
| genial | 1. having pleasant or friendly disposition; cordial; kindly 2. conductive to life or groth; giving warmth; mild |
| unadulterated | not mingled with or diluted with extraneous matter; pure |
| obstinacy | 1. the state or quality of being stubborn, inflexable, difficult to manage 2. an act or instance of stubborness |
| purport | an apparent meaning or purpose; import; significance |
| perpetrate | 1. to be guilty of; commit 2. to carry out; preform |
| type | an example or model; embodiment |
| amenable | willing to follow advice or suggestion; tractable; submissive |
| peremptory | 1. precluding further debate or action 2. not admitting, denial, imperative 3. having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent |
| lethe | the river of forgetfulness in hades; oblivion; loss of memory |
| nepenthe | a drug mentioned in the odyssey as a remedy for grief; anything that induces oblivion of sorrow or eases pain |
| requital | 1. the act of making repayment 2. return, as for an injury or for some friendly act |
| Paracelsus | 1. Swiss alchemist and physician, 1493-1541; he wrote on medicine (old guy) |
| quaff | 1. to drink heartily |
| expostulation | 1. the act of reasoning earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct; remonstrance |
| feigned | 1. to give false appearance; to pretend; to sham |
| paramour | 1. a lover, of either sex, especially in an adulterous relationship |
| ligaments | 1. any unifying or connecting tie or bond |
| vivify | 1. to give or bring life to; to animate 2. to make more lively, intense or striking; to enliven |
| retribution | 1. something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment |
| martyrdom | 1. the state of being someone who suffers deathe or who sacrifices something very important in order to further a cause, a belief, or a principle 2. extreme suffering |
| fain | 1. readily; willingly 2. obliged or required |
| emolument | 1. payment for one's job or for services rendered |
| subsistence | 1. a means of continuing to exist; sustenance |
| ascetic | 1. self-denying; austere |
| repungnance | 1. the state of feeling extreme dislike or aversion |
| ulcerated | 1. affected with lesions of the skin, resulting in death of the tissue 2. affected by any corrupting condition or influence |
| callous | 1. having callusus; toughened 2. emotionally hardened; insensitive; unfeeling |
| insidious | 1. working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner 2. intended to entrap; wily; treacherous |
| intimations | 1. a hint or other indirect sign; a subtle implication |
| talisman | 1. an object marked with magical signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection 2. anything having apparently magical power |
| mutability | 1. the tendency to change frequently; inconstancy; fickleness |
| prolific | 1. producing offspring or furit in great abundance 2. producing abundant works or results |
| caprice | 1. an impulsice change of ming |
| anathema | 1. a vehement denunciation; curse 2. someone or something cursed, reviled or shunned |
| phantasmagoric | 1. having to do with a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever |
| dearth | 1. scarcity; lack; paucity |
| ejaculation | a sudden, emphatic utterance; an exclamation |
| penance | an act of self-mortification or devotion performed by way of demonstrating contrition for sin |
| intrinsic | pertaining to the essential nature of a thing; inherent |
| imperious | domineering; overbearing |
