Vocab - APLIT

Usurp

To seize and hold by force or without legal right

Transient

Lasting only a short time; existing briefly

Impiety

Lack of dutifulness or respect

Sundry

Various or diverse

Providence

The foreseeing care and guidance of God over the creatures of the earth

Despotism

Absolute power or tyranny

Acquiesce

To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent

Obdurate

Stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent

Consanguinity

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship

Commendation

Recommendation; praise

Assent

To agree or concur

Abdicate

To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner

Plaintitive

Expressing sorrow or melancholy

Fettered

Restricted; confined; restrained

Equivocate

To use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead

Transcendental

Surpassing, transcend, superior

Sublime

Elevated or lofty in though, language, etc.

Sojourn

A temporary stay

Proprietor

A person who has the exclusive right or title to something; an owner, as of real property

Malady

Any undesirable or disordered condition (sickness)

Phantasm

A creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy

Tempestuous

Of the nature or resembling a tempest

Beguile

Influence by trickery, flattery; mislead, delude

Manifold

Of many kinds; numerous and varied

Countenance

Appearance, especially look or expression of face

Impertinent

Irrelevant, rude, intrusive, uncivil, absurd

Commensurate

Corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

Delineate

To trace the outline of, sketch or trace; describe or outline with precision

Abeyance

Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension

Visage

The face, with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.