| A | B |
|---|
| profaners | those who have irreverence for what is sacred |
| pernicious | evil;wicked |
| augmenting | to make something greater |
| portentous | foreboding (a sense of danger) |
| transgression | a violation of a law or command |
| posterity | future generations |
| languish | to become weak or feeble |
| heretics | a person who holds controversial opinions |
| 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 |
| loathed | to dislike greatly |
