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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or foreshadow |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability |
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| diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| speed, alacrity; think accelerate |
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| an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out, rescind |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
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| menacing, threatening (think of Minotaur) |
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| tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| biased; showing marked tendencies |
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| timid, fearful, diffident |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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