1. Vocabulary
List #3

2. Wiles sly tricks; deceitful artifice; stratagem

3. Assertions positive statements or declarations with no objective proof

4. Ignoramus stupid person who lacks knowledge and experience

5. Prodigious wonderful; amazing

6. Blasphemous showing a lack of respect toward God

7. Adjured commanded solemnly; appeal to earnestly He adjured his followers to remain faithful to the cause.

8. Indignantly acting angrily or scornfully especially because of unjust or mean treatment

9. Resolutely in a determined, unwavering manner He has remained resolute in his opposition to the bill.

10. Perfidious Treacherous a perfidious campaign worker revealed the senator's strategy to his leading rival for the nomination

11. Venerable worthy of respect by reason of age and dignity or character

12. Enraptured filled with great pleasure or delight

13. Munificence generosity in giving; lavishness

14. Ominous sinister; threatening

15. Dharma In Hinduism, the duties and obligations of each caste

16. Mitigate to make less severe

17. Caricature an exaggerated or ludicrous likeness or imitation, usually of one’s face