balmy
Moderately warm and tranquil
alderman
A political position roughly equivalent to being on a city council or county commission.
daguerreotype
the result of the earliest type of photographic processing
Profanation
To commit an act of desecration
Famishing
The act of going without eating or being starved of hunger
Grizzled
Old and graying with the suggestive quality of hard-won experience
Supplicating
Expressing a very deep-seated and intense desire for something to the extent of begging for it
Tranquil
Peaceful and serene.
Salutation
A robustly expressed greeting of warmth and comradeship
Imploring
To beg or request in an insistent manner
Forsake
To give up something completely
Thenceforth
From this point forward.
Desolation
Conveying a sense of bleak isolation
Solace
The offering of consolation and support to help someone in emotional anguish
Negligence
A careless or indifferent lack of attention to one’s duties or responsibilities
Resolution
A commitment to do something
Postscript
Additional remarks attached to the end of correspondence.
Gaiety
A state or expression of vivacious cheer
Bodings
Portents or omens of something that may happen in the future
Furtive
Acting in a suspiciously secretive manner
