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conflagration — conflict disconsolately — cheerlessly furtively — done by stealth impudent — lacking modesty inveigh — to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently supercilious — coolly and patronizingly haughty usurping — to seize and hold in possession by force without right burnish — to make shiny or lustrous half-crown — a British coin worth two shillings and sixpence lugubrious — dismal ostentatiously — marked by or indulging in conspicuous or vainglorious and sometime pretentious display quid — a pound sterling; money shillings — a former monetary unit equal to 1/20 pound of any various countries in or formerly in the British Commonwealth sovereigns — a coin of the United Kingdom containing 113 grains of fine gold acquiesced — to accept or comply tacitly or passively cerise — a moderate red feudal — of, relating to, or suggestive of the system of political organization based on lords and service of tenants forte — one’s strong point girt — to encircle or bind with a flexible band lucid — clear to the understanding prig — one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree reticent — inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech shibboleth — a custom or usage regarded as a criterion for distinguishing members of one group