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| Word | Definition |
| Ablutioner | A made-up word to rhyme with executioner, one who bathes |
| Accomplices | Those who help |
| Adamant | Stubborn, unyielding |
| Affidavit | Sworn statement |
| Airy persiflage | Light, unimportant conversation |
| Anomaly | Something or some one unusual |
| Arbitrary | Determined by chance or whim |
| Artistic verisimilitude | Creative truth |
| Bedew | To dampen |
| Blue-bottle | A kind of fly |
| Connoisseurs | Experts, those with special training |
| Connubially | By marriage |
| Corroborative | Supporting |
| Deference | Respect |
| Diminutioner | A made-up word to rhyme with executioner, one who makes small |
| Effulgent | Shiningly brilliant |
| Elliptical | Oval-shaped |
| Genius tutelary | Guardian of brilliance |
| Humours (British) | Emotions (American spelling is humors) |
| Ignominiously | Shamefully or disgracefully |
| Impudence | Offensively bold behavior |
| Irretrievable | Unable to get back |
| Ladies' seminary | A school for ladies |
| Man the capstan | Work the capstan (the devise used to raise the anchor on a ship) |
| Merge | Blend or combine |
| Meritorious | Deserving honor |
| Miscreant | Villain, evildoer |
| Modified rapture | Extreme pleasure made less extreme |
| Mortify | To discipline |
| Mystical | Those who have a connection to God |
| Naught | Nothing |
| Perjury | Untrue statement while under oath |
| Pestilential | Having "pests" like rats & vermin |
| Pestilential nuisances | People who annoy like a pest (insect) |
| Philanthropist | One who improves life for others |
| Plighted | Promised |
| Quaffing | Drinking |
| Recognizances | On one's own word |
| Salaried minion | A person of low rank who works for money |
| Scoundrel | Villain, bad guy |
| Self-decapitation | To cut off one's own head |
| Sepulchre | Tomb |
| Slaughtered | Killed |
| Slovenly | Sloppy |
| Sneering | A scornful facial expression |
| Snickersnee | A long knife for cutting |
| Soliloquizing | Talking to one's self |
| Tarry | Wait |
| Tocsin | Bells rung to warn of danger |
| Trammels | Restrictions |
| Tress | Lock of hair |
| Wafted | Floating through the air |
| Wend | To go along, proceed |
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