vocab (murder in the cathedral)

anathema

a person or thing detested or loathed; accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction

bereft

deprived, lacking

churl

a rude, boorish, or surly person; a peasant, rustic

circumlocution

a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea (beating around the bush)

cloying

causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess; overly ingratiating or sentimental (“ew because its too much”)

execrate

hate; to detest utterly; abhor; abominate

levity

funniness, silliness, lightness of mind, character or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness; an instance of exhibition of this

malfeasance

performance of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law, especially by a public official or a person in a position of public trust

oblation

offering to God of the elements of bread & wine in the Eucharist; the whole office of the Eucharist

perdition

state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation; the future state of the wicked

retrospection

action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past; a survey of past events or experiences

spleen

highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach (associated with emotion)