Vocabulary 4

apothecary

(noun) 1.one who prepares and sell drugs; pharmacist 2.a pharmacy or drugstore. 3.especially in England and Ireland) a druggist

benevolent

(adj) characterized by doing good or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

boorish

(adjective) 1. of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; rude, offensive

buffoon

(noun) 1. a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures 2.a person given to coarse or undignified joking.

cavalier

(n.)1. A gallant or chivalrous man, especially one serving as escort to a woman of high social position; a gentleman. 2. A mounted soldier; a knight. 3. (adj) arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive: a cavalier attitude toward the suffering of others 4. Carefree and nonchalant; jaunty.

Choleric

(adjective)1. extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible; bad-tempered

Cloister

(noun) a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other; a place devoted to religious seclusion (verb) seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery

Coy

(adj)1. shy and retiring 2. making a pretense of shyness or modesty that is intended to be alluring.

Devout

(adj) having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment; pious; sincere or earnest

esoteric

(adj) understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite

Felicity

(noun) the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss

garrulous

(adj) tiresomely talkative; rambling

guile

(n) 1. insidious and cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity; deceit.

motley

(adj) 1. Heterogeneous, varied; 2. Multi-colored

physiognomy

(noun) 1.the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to character 2. art of determining character or personal characteristics from facial features

scrupulous

(adj) 1. having moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled 2. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact:

Secular

(adj) not pertaining to or connected with religion; worldly rather than spiritual

Solicitous

(adj) 1.concerned, attentive 2. eager 3. Anxious

verisimilitude

(n) - the quality of appearing to be true or real; the painting owes its verisimilitude to…

wanton

(adj) 1. promiscuous or lascivious 2. Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust. 3. Unrestrainedly excessive (noun) one who is licentious or promis