Seething
A simmering of anger-based emotions to the point of boiling over into reactive action.
Guise
A persona taken on by someone to present a false façade to the world; short for disguise.
Privateers
A word that means essentially the same as pirate that those engaging in piracy use when they don’t want to be thought of as pirates.
Abomination
Something so horrible and ghastly as to be thought of as the opposite of normal course of nature.
Fearmonger
Someone who stokes irrational fears in others as a means of pursuing their own agenda.
Fealty
A ritualistic show of devotion, loyalty or allegiance to a leader.
Deign
A condescending gesture which may take on the appearance of altruistic charity.
Insufferable
A description of someone whose presence is so unrelentingly unbearable as to almost be physical impossible to withstand.
Pantaloons
Outdated form of pants for men (though still popular in some forms for women) which tied or fasten just below the knee; pirate pants.
Mongrel
Though almost exclusively applied to animals nowadays, its definition implying cross-breeding has long been applied negatively to humans to indicate a lack of “proper breeding.”
Perplexed
A state of confusion indicating an intensified ignorance verging on being baffled or bewildered.
Mizzenmast
The mast for raising a sail on a ship which is located farthest to toward the back of the vessel.
Berate
To castigate another person with malicious intent so to humiliate them, preferably publicly.
Eunuch
A bodyguard for the wives or concubines of a ruler who has been castrated for the purpose of making them suitable for protecting the virtue of women without threatening it.
Vexing
Causing the state of being perplexed in another to the point of it becoming bothersome to them.
Billowing
Moving from a center point outward in undulating waves of motion.
Threadbare
A state which conveys a sense of shabby impoverishment.
Antecedent
Anything which has preceded something similar or related which occurs at some point afterward.
Stalwart
Projecting a sense of steadfast and resolute loyalty, courage, or gallantry.
Demeanor
Those aspects of behavior not expressed explicitly through verbal discourse which define the essential personality or character of a person.
