big vocab test
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- subsequently
- following in order
- congenial
- agreeable; friendly
- portal
- doorway, entrance
- inauspicious
- w/out good favor; unlucky, bad
- physiognomies
- outward appearances; faces
- augured
- predicted the future
- infamy
- reputation for doing evil; dishonor
- evanescent
- tending to disappear easily
- ignominy
- shame, dishonor
- peremptory
- incapable of delay or opposition; dictatorial, commanding to be obeyed
- alchemy
- an early form of chemistry, usually involving turning base metals to gold
- behooves
- to be proper or necessary
- perpetrate
- to perform, to do, esp. something evil
- expostulation
- the act of reasoning with a person believed to be in error; persuasion
- retribution
- punishment; vengeance
- lurid
- ghastly, deathly; shocking
- vivify
- to make alive
- emolument
- gain from employment; wages
- commiseration
- sympathy; pity
- ascetic
- severely simple; one who practices extreme self denial
- superfluous
- more than enough; surplus
- repugnance
- a feeling of hatred
- insidious
- secretly evil; sly
- inviolable
- unable to be moved or changed
- caprice
- whim; notion
- vilify
- to speak evil of; defame
- decry
- to lesson in importance or value; to rebuke
- unobtrusive
- unable to be seen easily
- indefeasible
- incapable of being declared null an void
- ominous
- predicting evil; foreboding
- inimical
- harmful; like an enemy
- acquisition
- something gained by one's effort
- scrupulous
- having a belief in certain principles