East India Company Part 1 (Vocabulary)

Thickset

A man having a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest.

Laconic

Using very few words to say what you mean

Happenchance

A coincidental event

Diligent

Showing care and consciousness in once work and duties.

Austere

Strict in manner/attitude/personality

Acquit

Free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.

Polemicist

A person who engages in controversial debates

Duel

A contest, with deadly weapon, arranged between two people in order to settle a point of honor.

Descent

An action of moving downward, dropping or falling

Effete

Behaving in weight traditionally associated with women, and regarded as inappropriate for man

Megalomaniac

A person who is obsessed with their own power

Profligacy

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

Licentious

Synonym for profligacy

Extraction

The ethnic origin of someone’s family

Overweening

Too proud or confident in oneself.

Haughty

Unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people

Courteous

Polite, respectful, and considerate in manner

Urbane

Synonym of courteous

Pubescent

A person at or approaching the age of puberty.

Catamite

A pubescent boy, who was the intimate companion of an older man

Limp

Walking with difficulty typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot

Shrewd

Having or showing sharp powers of judgment

Astute

Synonym of shrewd

Unravel

The disintegration of the system

Paramount

Supreme