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Usurp
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V. to seize and hold
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Avouch
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V. to admit, confess
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Martial
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Adj. warlike
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Portentous
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Adj. ominously significant
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Harbinger
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N. a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another
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Dirge
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N. a funeral song or tune
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Impious
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Adj. not religious
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Jocund
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Adj. cheerful
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Circumscribe
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V. to enclose within bounds
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Dalliance
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N. a trifling away of time; dawdling
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Perusal
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N. a reading
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Precept
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N. a procedural directive or rule
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Extremity
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N. the extreme or terminal point; a limb of the body
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Firmament
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N. the vault of heaven; sky
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Paragon
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N. a model or pattern of excellence
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