Ch13-14 Deadmen

13.

 Atrocity:

an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.

Insurrection:
a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Reverenced:

deep respect for someone or something.

Sarcophagus: 
a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.

Concubines:
a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives.

Perpetual:
never ending or changing.

Embezzling:
steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

Conspirators:

a person who takes part in a conspiracy.

Antiquity:
the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.

Despoiling:
steal or violently remove valuable or attractive possessions from; plunder




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Truculence:
obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.
Compunction:

a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad.

Arduous:

involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.

Frivolous: 
not having any serious purpose or value.

Exhuming:

dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.

Delved:
reach inside a receptacle and search for something.

Convivial:
(of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, and enjoyable.
Embalming:
preserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative
Arsenic:
the chemical element of atomic number 33, a brittle steel-gray metalloid
Anticlimactic:
anything connected with turning out to be far less meaningful or exciting than was hoped