Vocabulary for West With the Night

Inadvertently: Something done by mistake, as a result of an action.

Fraternity: Relationship and fellowship between brothers.

Niggardly salutations: A rude and discourteous way of greeting someone.

Emitting: Pouring out or expressing.

Premeditation: Something that is planned or plotted.

Metre: A constant rhythm or pace.

Encompassed: surrounded or embraced.

Gravity: Solemnity.

Expounding: Stating.

Ascend: to climb.

Inhibitions: Being restrained or unable to fully do something.

Abhorred: to detest.

Torrents: Sheets of swift flowing water.

Fertile: Rich and healthy; able to yield crops.

Infested: overrun with a pest.

Traversed: traveled and passed over.

Condescend: To look down on.

Mandate: To control or own.

Festoon: a garland or ring of material.

Imperious: dominating in royal manor.

Fretted: nested.

Nucleus: center and core of being.

Persistence: insistence and tenacity.

Exemplary: The model of something.

Feudal: A government or way of living that operates on the premise of local leaders having the power that a central leader would possess.

Smug: complacent and self satisfied.

Profligate: wasteful.

Scrupulously: Using principles and morals in the dealings with people.

Stoical: unemotional.

Abandonment: impulsiveness.

Ebullient: happy and giddy.

Temerity: audacity.

Draconian: harsh and cruel.

Whimsical: playful and free spirited.

Tolled: rang or sounded.

Accomplice: Companion and aid.

Past-master: expert and experienced.

Undeviating: unfaltering, unchanging.

Cryptology: mysterious pattern.

Chastened: subdued or calm.

Disillusionment: deprived of illusion; realistic.

Murani: A tribe of people.

Withers: high part of the back of a cow.

Fawning: Exhibiting affection.

Levity: lightness and cheerfulness.

Resound: to echo.