Vocabulary

**dire:** Serious **douse:** To pour, soak something **harangue:** to lecture or badger someone **invalid:** Patient or sick person/Not valid **pustule:** A bump on the skin filled with cloudy liquid **reveled:** Enjoy lively festivities like dancing or drinking alcohol **waft:** To gently float **welter:** A jumbled mass or pile **arsenic:** a poisonous chemical **corrupt:** because of getting money, a person treats people unfairly and does illegal things. **fathom:** To wonder or think of how something happens/is possible. **feign:** to pretend that something has happened, like an Italian footballer **imperceptibly:** unnoticeably, a subtle way of doing something **inhumane:** Unfair and unequal treatment of other people. **mercenary:** A hired fighter or guard. They aren't loyal to you, just to money. **sedative:** A chemical that makes a person drowsy or knocks them out. **stolid:** Calm and dependable. A reliable person who doesn't have a lot of fear.
 * aristocrat:** Someone rich or highly important
 * lavish: ** rich and over-the-top
 * gingerly: ** carefully