Fasting, Feasting

Fasting, Feasting Glossary

Raiment

Clothing

Peninsula

Foreland, cape

Decorum

Courtesy, good manner

Traversed

Roamed, passed over

Placidity

Undisturbed, quiet feeling

Embowered

Sheltered

Remiss

Thoughtless, neglectful, sloppy

Reproachful

Disparaging, accusatory, critical

Torpidly

Sluggishly, slowly

Taciturnity

Not wanting to talk

Vacuity

Emptiness

Ignominy

Being in a state of humiliation, shame, or disgrace

Querulously

Whining, complaining

Oleograph

A chromolithograph printed on cloth to imitate an oil painting (m-w.com)

Ribald

Humorous in a coarse way

Foetid

Heavy and smelly, like a swamp

Insouciance

Nonchalance

Phlegmatically

Behaving solidly, passively, almost apathetically

Alacrity

Cheerful promptness and eagerness

Cacophony

Loud, discordant sounds; din

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