| cater |
to supply food or other service. |
| embellish |
to improve by, or as though by, decorations; decorate. |
| ensue |
to occur as the result of an earlier event. |
| genteel |
displaying traits such as refinement and politeness that are traditionally associated with wealth and education. |
| hypocrite |
a person who pretends to be different or better than he or she really is. Someone who does not act according to his or her stated beliefs is a hypocrite. |
| incantation |
the words or sounds that are uttered or chanted as part of a magical ritual or spell, or the act of uttering such words or sounds. |
| instigate |
to purposely agitate or incite; provoke; foment. |
| magnanimity |
generosity or willingness to forgive. |
| plight1 |
a state or situation, especially an unhappy or unlucky one; predicament. |
| prudery |
the state, quality, or characteristic of being overly concerned with modest or proper conduct, speech, dress, or the like. |
| recount |
to tell a history of events; relate; narrate. |
| refute |
to demonstrate the falseness or error of; disprove. |
| reverberation |
the continuation of a sound after the source of the sound has been cut off. |
| tenet |
any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or especially an organization holds as being true. |
| treatise |
a detailed and formal written work, usually dealing systematically with a single theme or subject. |