Propitiate: to gain or regain the favor or goodwill Diligent Perusal: to examine or consider with attention Adversity: instance of serious

or continued difficulty Lofty: elevated in character and spirit; noble Meretricious: pretentious Embellish Presumptuous: self-confident Eminence: high station rank Condescend Ardent: characterized by intense feeling; passionate Malevolence: hatred Conceive Dominions: power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority Slothful Deviation: departure from a standard or norm Destitute: without means of subsistence Endeavor: make an effort; to attempt Repose: to pose again Intemperance: lack or moderation or due restraint Declivity: downward slope Topography: detailed mapping or charting of the features of an area Habituate: to accustom Affability: pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to Exigencies: state of urgency Parsimonious: frugal Pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution Debauched: corrupted; debased Impious:

Prudence: discretion Vice: immoral or evil habit Liberal: Fiscal: pertaining to financial matters in general Prodigality: wasteful extravagance in spending Avarice: greed for riches Imputation: accusation Covetous: eagerly desirous Pontifical: characteristic of any high or chief priest Clemency: quality of being compassionate Reproach: to find fault with Rapine: violent seizure and carrying off of another's property Insupportable: unbearable Dissembling: to give a false or misleading appearance to Abstain: Severity: Injudicious: showing lack of judgement Tarnished: diminish or destroy the purity of Caprice: sudden, unpredictable change Scrupled: to have moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force Recur: Allegorical: of a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms Antiquity: quality of being ancient Centaur: skillful horseman/woman Dexterity: Inculcating: teach persistently and earnestly Precept: commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct Pique: affect with sharp irritation and resentment Breach:

Dupes: person who is easily deceived or fooled Artifices: cunning, crafty device Enumerated: name one by one Indispensable: essential Venture: Piety: Expedient: advantageous Fidelity: loyalty Impunity: exemption from punishment Persevere: Rectitude: moral virtue Vulgar: Sublunary: terrestrial Surpass: Conjecture: conclude or suppose with insufficient evidence Inundate: overwhelm Irruptions: breaking or bursting in Impetuosity: impulsiveness Inconstancy: variable Circumspection: caution Infallibly: absolutely trustworthy Resolution: formal expression of opinion or intention made Adverse: opposing one's interests or desire Magnanimity: quality of being generous in forgiving an insult or injury Manifest: evident Odious: deserving or causing hatred Adduced: bring forward in argument or as evidence Concur: Facilitate: make easier

Evinced: to show clearly Consummate: bring to state of perfection Celerity: swiftness Render: cause to be or become; make Resolute: set in purpose or opinion Vivacity: state of being lively Bucklers: protection Pikes: superficially similar fishes Homage: respect of reverence paid or rendered Auspices: augur of ancient Rome