Vocabulary!
Section One: Chapters 1-5
1. Throng: a great number of persons crowded together.
2. Edifice: a large, usually impressive building.
3. Fibre: basic toughness
4. Antinomian: one who rejects a socially established morality.
5. Plebeian: one of the common people.
Section Two: Chapters 6-10
6. Caprice: a sudden, impulsive change: whim.
7. Folio: a book of the largest size.
8. Adduced: to bring forward as in argument or as evidence.
9. Incantations: a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic.
10. Palliate: to cover by excuses or apologies.
Section Three: Chapters 11-14
11. Malice: desire to see another suffer.
12. Expiation: to atone for; to make amends for.
13. Acquiescing: to accept or comply tacitly or passively.
14. Usurp: to seize and hold (a position,power, etc.) by force or without legal right.
15. Impalpable: incapable of being felt by touch.
Section Four: Chapters 15-18
16. Sedulous: diligent in application or pursuit.
17. Loquacity: exceedingly talkative.
18. Spectre: something that haunts or perturbs the mind; specter.
19. Colloquy: a conversation especially formal one.
20. Citadel: a stronghold.
Section Five: Chapters 19-21
21. Gesticulating: making gestures especially when speaking.
22. Obeisance: a bodily gesture, as a bow, expressing respect.
23. Scruple: an ethical consideration or principle that inhabits action.
24. Effervesce: to show liveliness or exhilaration.
25. Potentate: one who wields controlling power.
Section Six: Chapters 22-24
26. Unbenignantly: acting in a way that is not favorable or beneficial.
27. Swarthy: being of a dark color, complexion, or cast
28. Smite: to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously.
29. Wrought: deeply stirred: excited.
30. Gules: the heraldic color red.

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