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Usurp
vb, to seize and hold by force
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Harbingers
n, person sent ahead to provide lodging
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Portentous
adj, "Done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress" -Google
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Dole
n, ones alloted share, portion or destiny, 2) a distribution of supplies to the needy
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Visage
n, the face, countennance, or appearance of a person
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Obsequious
Adj, exhibiting a fawning attentiveness/compliance 2) "Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree" - GOOG
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Jocund
adj, marked by high spirits/jolitity
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Filial
Adj, of a son or daughter
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Retrograde
vb. to turn back
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Circumscribed
vb. "Restrict (something) within limits, Draw (a figure) around another, touching it at points but not cutting it" - GOOG
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Calumnious
adj. marked by slander
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Precepts
n. command or principle given as a general rule
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Waxes
v. "Become larger or stronger" - Google
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Importunity
n. being in a state of urgent begging
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Libertine
n. free thinker, esp. in religious matters
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Censure
n. judgement involving condemnation
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Prodigal
adj. recklessly extravagent
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Sepulcher
n. place of burial
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Wassail
n. a toast to someone's health
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canonized
v. to recognize as a saint
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interred
v. "Place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites" - Google
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Enmity
n. mutual ill will
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Unaneled
adj. not having received extreme unction; not annointed
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Ambiguous
adj. doubtful or uncertain
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Harrow
v. pillage, plunder
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Lewdness
n. state of evil, wickedness
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Pernicious
adj. highly injurious or destructive
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