Hearse
A vehicle for carrying the coffin at a funeral.
Unkneaded
Raw; the flour that has not been kneaded or blended as to make a dough.
Dispense
Distribute, Allocate, Disburse (Verb).
Pulpit
Podium, Dais, the raised platform in a chapel from where priests deliver the sermons.
Homily
Sermon, Lecture, a religious discourse.
Delphic quire
‘Delphic’ refers to the Greek Delphian oracle, which was hard to decipher. A 'quire' is a certain arrangement of papers or parchments in a medieval manuscript. Figuratively, a Delphic quire is an obscure or ambiguous piece of literary work which is hard to comprehend or decipher.
Pedantic
Scrupulous, Meticulous, Concerned with minute details.
Servile
Subservient, Sycophantic, Too eager to serve or please others.
Penurious
Extremely poor, Destitute. Also means miserly.
Licentious
Decadent, Debauched, Unchaste, Promiscuous in sexual matters.
Exchequer
Treasury
Apostasy
Renunciation or abandonment of a religious belief.
Eloquence
Fluency of expression (both written and oral). Oratory, Rhetoric. (Hence, 'dumb eloquence' is an Oxymoron here)
Feeble
Weak, Frail, Infirm, Delicate, Sickly (Adjective).
Disdain
Contempt, Disrespect, Scorn. (Can be used both as a noun and a verb).
Incise
Engrave, Carve out.
