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Ecclesiastical having to do with the church or the clergy

(n.) inordinate greed; the disposition to obtain one's desires by force, extortion, or plunder

Acrimony ill-natured, bitter hostility

Dunnest dark and gloomy

Prate

Arbor a shaded area often covered with vines or flowers

Disparate fundamentally different; entirely unlike

Buttress

Idiosyncratic

Imbibe

Candid (adj.) frank, sincere; impartial; unposed

Clandestine (adj.) secret, concealed; underhanded

Judicious

An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

Conciliar relating to or proceeding from a council, especially an ecclesiastical one.

Jutty

hanging or suspended

Peurile

Peroration the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

clarifying by use of examples

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

Repudiated

(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved

(adj.) glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way

precede in time; come before (something) in date

Imputation

SAOA: a fancy way to say idiot

Alembic Anything that transforms, purifies, or refines; an apparatus to distill

1. not having the right knowledge, experience, or qualifications to do something

Cadence rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words

Acquiscence

Microcephalic Addlepate

to express an opinion

Imputation accusation

Quaaludes Depressant

Vicissitudes (n.) - the unexpected changes and shifts often encountered in one's life

Dais raised platform

Mucilaginous moist and sticky

blinding

Surceased stop

Inveterate firmly established, long-standing; habitual

Pontiff

minor peculiarities of personal behavior

Cavalier

Pendent

Incisiveness penetrating, cutting, biting, remarkably clear and direct; keen, acute

Unto the ages of ages; eternity

Schadenfreude delight in another person's misfortune

before the fact

out-of-date, not attributed to the correct historical period

Skeuomorphic design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts

Contravention coming into conflict with

a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

Vis-a-vis face to face

Judicious (adj.) using or showing good judgment, wise, sensible

a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying

Pursuant in conformance to or agreement with

Acrimony

Buttress (v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supporting structure

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