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Tarn

a small steep-banked lake or pond

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Boon

close or intimate

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Munificent

characterized by great generosity

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Patrimony

an estate inherited from one's father

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Appellation

an identifying name or title

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Phantasmagoric

describing a bizarre or fantastic combination

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Ennuye

affected with weariness or boredom

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Wan

pale, sickly pale

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Cadaverousness

state or resembling a corpse

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Cataleptical

referring to a nervous condition characterized by muscular rigidity and fixity of posture regardless of external stimuli, as well as decreased sensitivity to pain

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Sulphureous

of, relating to, or containing sulfur/the fires of hell

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Dirge

a mournful piece of music, often intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites

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Educe

to bring out; to deduce

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Seraph

an order of angels

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Pinion

the terminal section of a bird's wing; flight feathers

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Porphyrogene

a son born after the accession of his father to the throne (literally "one born in the purple")

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Sentience

the ability or consciousness to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively

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Vegetable

unresponsive or non-living

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Collocation

the act or result of placing/arranging together

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Invalid

a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury

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Vagary

an erratic action or notion

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Tempest

a storm

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Casement

a window with a sash that opens at hinges at the side

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Miasma

a heavily vaporous atmosphere (i.e. fog), once thought to carry disease

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Prolixity

boring verbosity, long-windedness

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Doughty

valiant, brave

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Stimulus

a thing that rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.

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Dissonance

lack of harmony among musical notes.

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Cognitive

relating to the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

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Implore

beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

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Beguiling

charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way.

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Entreating

expressing an earnest or anxious request; pleading.

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Surcease

end

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Obeisance

a gesture of respect

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Countenance

facial expression

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Ominous

threatening or sinister

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Hackles

usually used to mean the hairs on the neck and back of a dog that stiffen when the dog is ready to attack.

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Spacious

large; roomy

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Obscure

not well known

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Recessed

remote; set back

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Vestibule

entrance room

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Muffled

difficult to hear because something is covering and softening the sound.

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Irremediably

in a way that cannot be helped or corrected

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Rending

violent or forceful pulling apart of something