| perfidy | deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. |
| stately | appear noble and impressive |
| ornery | grumpy and hard to please |
| elicit | bringing out a response of some sort. |
| invocation | appeal to a higher power for help, such as a prayer for serenity or a plea to the rain gods during a drought. |
| apostate | not faithful to religion or party or cause |
| betoken | A dark sky full of clouds might betoken a thunderstorm. In other words, the clouds indicate or point to the fact that a thunderstorm is on its way. |
| chagrin | you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure. |
| sanguine | optimistic that everything's going to work out fine. |
| revile | spread negative information about
spam is widely reviled. |
| capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
| appellation | the name or title by which someone is known. |
| reprise | repeat |
| cathartic | providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis. |
| precocious | occurring before the usual or expected time
example: precocious child |
| lebensraum | land or territory that a country's leaders believe it requires in order to grow and flourish. |
| ad nauseam | happening to such an extent that it makes you sick. In other words, it's going on too long or too much. |
| villanelle | 19-line poem with a fixed form, including two repeated rhymes and two refrains. |
| velleity | a wish that you aren't working to make come true. |
| posterity | future generations |
| forestall | stop it from happening. |
| stodgy | anything dull, out-of-style, or even hard to digest. |
| Posterity | future generations |
