black veil vocab

semblance

outward appearance

obscurity

darkness

iniquity

wickedness

ostentatious

deliberately attracting notice

sagacious

wise; keenly perceptive

portend

signify

pensively

thinking deeply or seriously.

antipathy

strong dislike

plausibility

believability

resolute

determined

sexton

church officer or employee whose duties may include maintenance, ringing the bells, and digging graves

spruce

neat in appearance

meditative

deeply thoughtful

crape

a kind of black cloth worn as a sign of mourning

inanimate

lifeless

abstracted

lost in thought

at variance

not in agreement

perturbation

state of alarm

the Omniscient

the all-knowing God

pathos

feelings of pity, sympathy, and sorrow

visage

face

indecorous

improper; lacking good taste

profaned

showed disrespect for

intimating

indirectly suggesting

hoary

white or gray, as with age

vagary

odd, unexpected action

scrupled

hesitated

shroud

cloth used to wrap a body for burial

prodigy

something extraordinary or inexplicable

celestial

heavenly

tremulous

trembling

waggery

joke

censure

expression of strong disapproval or criticism

amiable

friendly

remonstrance

protest; complaint

deputation

group of representatives

synod

governing body of a group of churches

plighted

promised

obstinacy

stubbornness; willfulness

bugbear

source of irrational fears.

preternatural

abnormal; supernatural

irreproachable

blameless

mitigate

make less painful

torpor

dull or sluggish state

inspiration

inhaling