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Prologue (p. 1-19)

1. Hindered: to cause delay, interruption
2. Affable: easy to approach, friendly
3. Aforementioned: mentioned previously
4. Suffice: to be enough; adequate
5. Genially: warmly and pleasently cheerful; cordial
6. Bluster: to be loud, noisy or swaggering; utter loud, empty menaces or protests
7. Malicious: vicious, wanton, or mischievious in motivation or purpose
8. Abhorrence: something or someone extremely repungnant or loathsome
9. Veracity: habitual observance of truth in speech, statement; truthfulness

Part 1 (p. 19-80)

 

1. Atrocious: extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel or brutal
2. Intervals: a space between things, point, limits
3. Accumulated: to gather or collect
4. Deciphered: to discover the meaning of anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand
5. Incense: the perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned
6. Minder: foster child
7. Auspicious: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable
8. Commenced: to begin; start
9. Raucous: rowdy; disorderly
10. Dutiful: performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty
11. Summation: the act or process of summing
12. Scrutinized: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention
13. Berating: to scold; rebuke
14. Staunch: characterized by firmness, steadfastness or loyalty
15. Audacious: extremely bold or daring, recklessly brave; fearless
16. Nefarious: extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous
17. Leering: a sly look
18. Lacerated: pained; wounded; tortured
19. Infamy: extremely bad reputation as the result of a shameful, criminal or outrageous act
20. Touted: to solicit business, employment, votes
21. Relinquished: to renounce or surrender
22. Elated: very happy or proud

Part 2 (p. 83- 122)

1.  Flippant: frivolously disrespectful, shallow or lacking in seriousness
2. Apprehend: to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority
3. Crux: something that torments by its puzzling nature
4. Overzealous: overly full of, characterized by or due to zeal
5. Anti-Semitism: discrimination against Jews
6. Collimate: to bring into line; make parallel
7. Ire: intense anger; wrath
8. Succumbing: to give way to superior force
9. Trotted: to go at a quick steady pace
10. Fervent: having or showing great warmth or intensity or spirit
11. Admonish: to caution, advise or counsel against something
12. Cowardice: lack of courage to face danger
13. Disperse: to drive or send off into various directions
14. Miraculousy: performed by or involving supernatural power
15. Consummate: to bring to a state of perfection
16. Creed: any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief
17. Culpability: guilt or blame that is deserved
18. Jocular: intended to be joking

Part 3 (p. 125- 170)

1. Sufficiently: adequate for the purpose; enough
2. Revelation: the act of revealing or disclosure
3. Vicious: spiteful, malicious
4. Absurdities: something absurd
5. Mangnitude: size; extent; dimensions
6. Oblivious: forgetful; without memory
7. Loitering: to linger aimlessly
8. Steadfastness: fixed in direction
9. Promptly: quick or alert
10. Pfennig: formerly a minor coin and monetary unit of East Germany
11. Havoc:  great destruction or devestation
12. Reefed: to reduce the length

Part 4 (p. 173- 238)

1. Appalled: to fill or overcome in horror
2. Vicinity: the area or region near or around a place
3. Fathom: to penetrate the truth of; comprehend
4. Affront: a personally offensive act or word
5. Maligant: very dangerous or harmful
6. Gangly: tall, lanky, awkward in movement
7. Vigorously: strong active
8. Bout: a contest of trial of strength; boxing
9. Trounced: to beat severely
10. Vitality: exurberant physcial strength or mental vigor
11. Apprehension: anticipation or adversity
12. Obscenity: indecency, lewdness
13. Inconspicuously: noticeable; prominent
14. Grotesquerie: Disgusting
15. Ruthless: without pity or compassion

Part 5 (p. 241- 303)

1. Preemptively: possessing the power; privledged
2. Machinations: crafty schemes, plots
3. Perplex: to make complicated or confused
4. Sorrow: distress caused by loss
5. Simultaneously: existing or occuring at the same time
6. Malice: desire to inflict injury or harm
7. Envisaged: to contemplate; visualize
8. Ensued: to follow in order
9. Methodically: especially slow

Part 6 (p. 307- 350)

1. Unwavering: to feel or show doubt
2. Incessantly: continuing without interruption
3. Adamant: too hard to cut
4. Predominantly: power; authority; influence over others
5. Incredulous: indicating or showing disbelief
6. Serpentined: wily or cunning
7. Warped: distorted from truth
8. Antithesis: opposition, contrast
9. Premonition: a feeling of anxiety

Part 7 (p. 353- 403)

1. Glorious: delightful; wonderful
2. Ration: to restrict consumption
3. Disqualifaction: kicked out
4. Elegant: tastfully fine or luxurious
5. Acquittal: discharge or settlement
6. Loathsome: disgusting; revolting;  repulsive
7. Recoiling: draw back; start again
8. Bulbous: having or growing from bulbs

Part 8 (p. 407- 455)

1. Rogue: a dishonest person
2. Spectacle: anything presented to the sight or view
3. Tormentor: a person or thing that torments
4. Colossal: great in size; extent; degree
5. Gargantuan: enormous
6. Humiliation: that state of feeling humilitated; mortified
7. Conceded: to awknowledge as truth
8. Treason: the betrayal of trust

 

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