front 1 pernicious | back 1 highly injurious or destructive : tending to a fatal issue : deadly. |
front 2 transgression | back 2 an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty the spread of the sea over land areas and the consequent unconformable deposit of sediments on older rocks |
front 3 grievance | back 3 a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
front 4 solemnity | back 4 formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event a solemn event or occasion a solemn condition or qualitythe solemnity of his words |
front 5 posterity | back 5 the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation 2: all future generations |
front 6 valiant | back 6 possessing or acting with bravery or boldness : COURAGEOUS 2: marked by, exhibiting, or carried out with courage or determination : HEROIC |
front 7 importune | back 7 to press or urge with troublesome persistence archaic :to request or beg for urgently |
front 8 esteem | back 8 the regard in which one is held especially : high regard |
front 9 partisan | back 9 a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person especially : one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance |
front 10 chaste | back 10 to keep ones virtue |
front 11 profane | back 11 to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt :DESECRATE to debase by a wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use |
front 12 forswear | back 12 to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath to reject or renounce under oathb: to renounce earnestly to deny under oath |
front 13 languish | back 13 to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated to be or live in a state of depression or decreasing vitality |
front 14 augment | back 14 to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
front 15 fray | back 15 a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
front 16 portentous | back 16 of, relating to, or constituting a portent |
front 17 heretics | back 17 religion : a person who differs in opinion from established religious dogma one who differs in opinion from an accepted belief or doctrine : NONCONFORMIST |
front 18 tyrannous | back 18 marked by tyranny especially : unjustly severe |
front 19 gall | back 19 brazen boldness often with brash self-confidence : NERVE, EFFRONTERY |
front 20 nuptials | back 20 of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony characteristic of or occurring in the breeding seasonnuptial flight |