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infallible
not subject to failure
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portent
a sign or warning
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qualms
uneasy pangs on conscience
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alms
donations to the needy
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dire
causing great fear or suffering
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grudge
to resent the good fortune oif a nother
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guise
a disguise, it conceals
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rapt
- An adjective meaning engrossed or spellbound. Macbeth
- reference: Banquo (to witches): "My noble partner you greet with present
- grace and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope, that heseems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
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carousing
drinking liquor freely or eccesively
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disposition
- n. the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's
- spirits;natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristicattitude- a girl with a pleasant disposition
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waned
decreased in vigor, died slowly
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callow
inexperienced or immature
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vigil
wakefullness duringthe night/ keeing watch
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hefting
lifting/carrying something heavy
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requite
to make appropriate return for a of favor or service. to reward
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berserk
Adj. (of a person or animal) to be out of control with anger or excitement or to be wild or frenzied
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hectoring
talking to someone ina bullying way
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Smote (verb, past tense of “smite”)
- To have struck down (usually by a
- divine or magical power.) Zeus smote his enemy yesterday.
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Suppliant
person making humble plea
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Aloof
- Above, usually in reference to lower socioeconomic classes
- of society (usually an act.) The snob kept himself aloof from his
- neighbors, who, as he noted condescendingly, were not "of his
- type." Can also mean to keep away from (a situation.) Johnson kept
- himself aloof from the brawl, deciding not to dirty his hands in thefights that so often occurred
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tremulous
shaking or quivering slightly
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vixen
an illtempered woman
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