211275411 | Edifice | a building, one of important size | |
211275412 | indubitable | unquestionably; undoubtedly | |
211275413 | scourged | whipped,flogged chastened severely | |
211275414 | transgressor | sinner | |
211275415 | ignominy | dishonor,degradation | |
211275416 | pillory | a wooden framework with holes for hands and head, used as punishment | |
211275417 | vie | to contend or compete with | |
211275418 | cloister | a place of religious seclusion | |
211275419 | visage | the face or facial expression of a person | |
211275420 | mien | manner; appearence | |
211275421 | eminent | distinguished, as in reputation | |
211275422 | unadulterated | not mixed or diluted;pure | |
211275423 | plaintive | sorrowful or mournful | |
211275424 | inscrutable | impenetrable, enigmatic | |
211275425 | progenitor | a direct ancestor | |
211275426 | mortify | to shame, humiliate | |
211275427 | penitence | repentance for ones sins | |
211275428 | insidious | spreading harm in a stealthy way | |
211275429 | balm | something that soothes or comforts | |
211275430 | ensue | to follow immediately | |
211275431 | revile | to denounce with abusive language | |
211275432 | efficiency | power to produce desired effect | |
211275433 | pristine | in a pure, uncorrupted sate | |
211275434 | impervious | cannot be penetrated or affected | |
211275435 | exigency | urgent requirement, pressing need | |
211275436 | physiognomy | facial features | |
211275437 | annals | recors; histories | |
211275438 | sunder | break apart;divide | |
211275439 | vindicate | to clear blame of;to justify | |
211275440 | deportment | conduct;correct conduct | |
211275441 | impel | to urge; compel | |
211275442 | vilify | to defame;to belittle maliciously | |
211275443 | intimated | hinted;implied subtly | |
211275444 | premeditated | planned or plotted in advance | |
211275445 | extant | in existence;not destroyed | |
211275446 | erudite | learned;having wide knowledge | |
211275447 | importunate | stubbornly persistent | |
211275448 | constrain | to compel;to restrain | |
211275449 | antipathy | aversion | |
211275450 | abstruse | difficult to comprehend | |
211275451 | rebuke | to criticize sharply | |
211275452 | defile | to corrupt;to profane;to make dirty | |
211275453 | penance | an act to work out ones sins | |
211275454 | ethereal | heavenly; spiritual | |
211275455 | pith | the essential or central part of anything | |
211275456 | dissemble | to fake, to simulate | |
211275457 | somnambulism | sleep-walking | |
211275458 | expiate | to make atonement | |
211275459 | reverberate | to re-echo;resound | |
211275460 | torpid | sluggish; lethargic | |
211275461 | acquiesce | yield or surrender | |
211275462 | propinquity | nearness;kinship | |
211275463 | estranged | separated from place or affections | |
211275464 | obviate | to make unnecessary | |
211275465 | blighted | withered; impaired | |
211275466 | deleterious | hurtful | |
211275467 | sedulous | diligent ; steadily industrious | |
211275468 | indefatigable | untiring | |
211275469 | audacity | effrontery,temerity; contempt for the restraints of law,religion, or decorum | |
211275470 | effluence | something that flows out |
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