Assuage:to make milder or less severe;relieve

Apothecary: a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs

Chattel:a personal possession.
Unusually:in a way that is not habitual or common.
Detention:the punishment of being kept in school after hours, forced to stay.
Tyrannical: oppressive and controlling.
Morbid:characterized by an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects,
especially death and disease.
Profane:not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular.
Compel:force or oblige (someone) to do something.
Scrawl:write (something) in a hurried, careless way.
Entailment:the relationship between two statements when for one to be true, the other must
also be true.
Vexation:worry or anger:
Mortification:a feeling of being very embarrassed:
Speculation:the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough
information to be certain.
Amiable:pleasant and friendly:
Truant:a child who is regularly absent from school without permission
Judiciously.
Auspicious:suggesting a positive and successful future
Sluggish:moving or operating more slowly than usual and with less energy or power.
Unanimous:If a group of people are unanimous, they all agree about one particular matter
or vote the same way, and if a decision or judgment is unanimous, it is formed or supported
by everyone in a group.
Dreary:boring and making you feel unhappy
Scowl:to look at someone or something with a very annoyed expression
Quell:to stop something, especially by using force
Pursuit:an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are not working
Incompréhensible:
Inquisitive:wanting to discover as much as you can about things, sometimes in a way that
annoys people
Quibble:To argue about, or say you disapprove of, something that is not important:
Ramshackle:badly or untidily made and likely to break or fall down easily.
Malignant:A malignant disease or growth is cancer or is related to cancer, and is likely to be
harmful.
Hover:to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly
Baffle:to cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain something.
Meditative:involving meditation (= giving your attention to one thing as a religious activity or
to relax):
Perpetrate:to commit a crime or a violent or harmful act
Ingenuous:honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly
Diversion:a different route that is used because a road is closed
Guileless:honest, not able to deceive
Provocation:an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry
Evasion:the act of avoiding something or someone
Feeble:weak and without energy, strength, or power
Inconspicuous:not easily or quickly noticed or seen, or not attracting attention
Simultaneous:happening or being done at exactly the same time
Jubilant: feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of a success
Bedecked:to decorate or cover
Inaudible:unable to be heard:
Undulate:to have a continuous up and down shape or movement, like waves on the sea
Propensity:the fact that someone is likely to behave in a particular way, especially a bad
way.
Inconsistent:If a reason, idea, opinion, etc. is inconsistent, different parts of it do not agree,
or it does not agree with something else
Appalling:to make someone have strong feelings of shock or of disapproval
Haughty:unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people
Confront:to face, meet, or deal with a difficult situation or person
Prerogative:something that certain people are able or allowed to do or have, but is not
possible or allowed for everyone
Preface:an introduction at the beginning of a book explaining its purpose, thanking people
who helped the author, etc.
Penitentiary:a state or federal prison
Resilient:able to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has
happened
Affliction:something that makes you suffer.
Succinct:said in a clear and short way; expressing what needs to be said without
unnecessary words
Budge:If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move
Futility:having no effect or achieving nothing
Aggregation:something formed by adding together several amounts or things
Sideboard:a piece of furniture with a flat top and cupboards at the bottom, usually used for
holding glasses, plates, etc.
Prominent:very well known and important.
Subpoena:to order someone to go to a law court to answer questions
Affluent:having a lot of money or owning a lot of things
Sullen:angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people
Glean:to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty:
Gavel:a small hammer that an official in charge of a meeting hits against a wooden block or
table to get people to be quiet and listen
Ambidextrous:able to use both hands equally well:
Pantomime:a funny musical play based on traditional children's stories, performed
especially at Christmas
Involuntary:not done by choice; done unwillingly, or without the decision or intention of the
person involved:
Shrivelled:dry, smaller than normal, and covered with lines as if by crushing or folding:
Compassion:a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of
others and a wish to help them
Prosecute:to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a law court, or (of a lawyer)
to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Swivel:to (cause to) turn around a central point in order to face in another direction:
Exodus:the fact of a large number of people leaving a place or situation
Subtlety:the quality of being subtle:
Expunge:to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing:
Sneer:to talk about or look at someone or something in an unkind way that shows you do
not respect or approve of him, her, or it
Detachment:a group of soldiers who are separated from the main group in order to perform
a particular duty
Calibre:the quality of someone or something, especially someone's ability
Relent:to act in a less severe way towards someone and allow something that you had
refused to allow before
Remorse:a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done:
Quiver:to shake slightly, often because of strong emotion:
Obscure:not known to many people:
Furtive:behaving secretly and often dishonestly, or (of actions) done secretly and often
dishonestly
Sprawl:to spread the arms and legs out carelessly and untidily while sitting or lying down
Apprehension:worry about the future, or a fear that something unpleasant is going to
happen
Vocation:a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give
all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way
Spurious:false and not what it appears to be, or (of reasons and judgments) based on
something that has not been correctly understood and therefore false
Feeble:weak and without energy, strength, or power.
Florid:with too much decoration or detail
Garment:a piece of clothing
Symptom:any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular
disease
Perforate:to make a hole or holes in something:
Spasm:an occasion when a muscle suddenly becomes tighter in a way that cannot be
controlled.
stolidly:in a way that is calm and does not show emotion or excitement
Poignant: moving/ deeply affecting
Carefree: free from anxiety or responsibility/ happy-go-lucky/untroubled
Remains: the parts left over/ a person’s body after death
Nearsightedness: not seeing clearly farther away (medical term)
Solace: consolation in times of sadness
Resilience: the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from diffculties; toughness.
Shunned: ignored or rejected.
Undeterred:persevering with something despite setbacks.
Debased: reduced in quality or value.
Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of
African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship
centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s
To falter: to lose strength or momentum.
A clean slate: a new start
To instill: to gradually but firmly establish
Downtrodden: oppressed or treated badly
A flock: a congregation
Paradigm: a standard, a perspective, a set of ideas.
Admission:a statement
Incongruous: not in harmony
To conceal: to hide
A leitmotif: a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with
a particular person, idea, or situation.
Demeanor: outward behavior or bearing
To exude: to strongly display
To swarm: a large or dense group of flying insects
Cynosure: a person or thing that is the centre of attention or admiration.
Contingent: existing only if
Solace: consolation
To mould: to form and restrain
Hegemony: leadership/ dominance
To soar: to fly/ to rise
Poignant: moving/ deeply affecting
Carefree: free from anxiety or responsibility/ happy-go-lucky/untroubled
Remains: the parts left over/ a person’s body after death
Nearsightedness: not seeing clearly farther away (medical term)