English vocab odessy books 2-5

• Calamity: An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster
• Frittered: Waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters
• Requite: Make appropriate return for a favor, service, or wrongdoing; repay
• Iniquities: Immoral or grossly unfair behavior; sins
• Rhetoric: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques
• Ardor: Enthusiasm or passion
• Indignation: Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment
• Portent: A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen
• Restitution: The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner
• Incomparable: Without an equal in quality or extent; matchless
• Farce: A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
• Tact: Skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues
• Regaled: Entertain or amuse someone with talk
• Insolence: Rude and disrespectful behavior
• Blackguardly: Behaving in a dishonorable or contemptible way; typically involving immoral or criminal actions
• Ruffian: A violent person, especially one involved in crime
• Portico: A structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building
• Equerry: An officer of the British royal household who attends or assists members of the royal family
• Infallible: Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong
• Accosted: Approach and address someone boldly or aggressively
• Repertory: A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
• Waylaid: Stop or interrupt someone and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way
• Omniscience: The state of knowing everything
• Consternation: Feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected
• Abetted: Encourage or assist someone to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offense
• Woebegone: Sad or miserable in appearance