- p.25 - decrepit
- weakened by old age; feeble; infirm.
- worn out by long use.
- p.67 - fealty
- a. fidelity to a lord. / b. the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal.
- fidelity; faithfulness.
- p.68 - gambit
- (Chess) an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
- any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
- a remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
- p.110 - deferent
- marked by or showing deference; respectful submission.
- p.134 - pabulum
- something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- material for intellectual nourishment.
- p.145/p.250 - modicum
- a moderate or small amount.
- p.248 - decry
- to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of.
- to condemn or depreciate by proclamation, as foreign or obsolete coins.
- p.249 - expletive
- an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath.
- a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out.
- p.249 - furtive
- taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret.
- sly; shifty.
- p.252 - detritus
- rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- any disintegrated material; debris.
may 17 2014 ∞
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