just in case anyone cares...

• Auspicious = reflecting fortune, promising well for the future
• Portentous = significant, pompous, amazing
• Retrograde = contrary
• Prodigal = wayward
• Libertine = licentious, immoral behavior (more negative connotation than prodigal)
• Pernicious = malicious, causing harm
• Perusal = thorough examination
• Adheres = sticks to
• Regicide = the killing of a king
• Expostulate = to explain in a very lengthy fashion
• Rhetoric paragon = best example of speaking/persuasion
• Quintessence = essence, most refined form, perfect example
• Visage = face
• Malefactions = sins
• Contumely = insults, expressions of contempt
• Consummation = final ending
• Bodkin = dagger
• Fardels = burdens
• Mortal coil = human body
• Corse = corpse
• Antic disposition = pretending to be crazy
• Closet = bedroom
• Choler = both anger and a stomach ailment
• Admiration = wonder/surprise
• Maid = virgin
• Unction = poison
• Rapier = term for a fencing sword
• Foil = term for a fencing sword
• Peruse = to examine carefully
• Unbated = not blunted
• Mountebank = quack doctor
• Chapless/chapfallen = jawless
• Mazard/pate = head
• Maimed rites = incomplete rites
• Quick = alive
• S’wounds = God’s wounds (a curse)
• Kites = birds
• Offal = guts