All terms in this list:
excommunication: The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
stench: metaphorically, a foul quality. (124)
gaunt: haggard, drawn, and emaciated. (125)
presently: In the near future; soon. Immediately, at once; soon. (121)
agape: Being in a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
conciliatory: willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
beguile: To deceive or delude (using guile). (129)
flounder: To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance. (present participle) (129)
reprieve: To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution. (129)
retaliation: Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice. (129)
adamant: resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding (130)
cleave: To split or sever something or as if with a sharp instrument. (132)
disputation: The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. (132)
tantalize: to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
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