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Scullery - a small room near the kitchen used for cleaning dishes, culinary utensils, and vegetables
Ensconced - 1) Shelter, Conceal 2) To settle snugly or securely
Cynical - one who attributes all actions to selfish motive
Paddock - a usually enclosed area for pasturing or exercising animals
Daintily - 1) Pleasing to the taste 2) delicately pretty 3) Fastidious
Vivacious - Lively in temper or conduct
Persuasive - to move by argument or entreaty to a belief or course of action
Maltreating - to treat cruelly or roughly
Reign - the authority or rule of a sovereign
Reins - a line of a bridle by which a rider or driver directs an animal
Tramps - to walk, tread, or step heavily
Indefatigable - untiring
Manipulation - to treat or operate manually or mechanically especially with skill
Maxim - a proverbial saying
Weaned - to accustom
Smithies - a smith's workshop
Perpetually - continuing forever
Ignominious - 1) dishonourable 2) despicable 3) Humiliating
Sentimentality - marked by, governed by, or resulting from feeling, sensibility or emotional idealism rather than reason
Impromptu - made or done on or as if on the spur of the moment
Pretext - a purpose stated or assumed to cloak the real intention
Blithely - 1) Happily, lighthearted 2) Marked by a lack of a serious concern
Canvassing - To examine in detail
Procure - to get possession of
Sordid - Filthy, Dirty
Disinterred - 1) To take from the grave or the tomb 2) Unearth
Reverent - expressing honour and respect mixed with awe
Governess - a woman who teaches and trains a child
Reconciled - to cause to be friendly or harmonious again
Perpendicularity - standing at right angle to the plane of the horizon
Cryptic - meant to be puzzling or mysterious
Thwart - baffle
Coccidiosis - A contagious intestinal disease of domestic and wild animals, especially birds, rarely in human, caused by a member of an order of sporozoans living as parasites in the intestines
Decreed - command
Countenance - (noun) the human face as an indicator of mood or character 2) Sanction
Slunk - to move stealthily or furtively
Flogged - lash: to beat severely with a rod or whip
Beatifically - giving or indicative of great joy or bliss
Flimsy - lacking strength or substance
Wistful - full of longing and unfulfilled desire
Pencilled - to paint, draw, or write with a pencil
Baying - to bark with deep long tone
Solemn - marked by or observed with full religious ceremony (Formal)
Amentation - to mourn aloud
Tureen - deep bowl from which food (as soup) are served at table
Precincts - District
Linseed - the seeds of flax yield linseed oil
Gill - a unit of capacity equal to four fluidounce
Brutes - beast
Demeanor - conduct, bearing
Knacker - a person whose job is to kill old and useless horses
Rheumy - a watery discharge from the mucous membranes especially of the eyes or the nose
Superannuated - 1) to make, declare or prove obsolete or out of date 2) to retire and pension because of age or infirmity
Milling - to process in a mill
Nuzzling - to root around, push, or touch with or as if with the nose
Deputation - 1) the act of appointing a deputy 2) delegation
Accord - (noun) agreement, harmony (verb) Grant, concede
Proprietors - owner
Witticism - a witty saying or phrase
Clink - to make or cause to make a sharp short metallic sound
Malignant - injurious, malign
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