A Mercy

A Mercy Glossary

Cookhouse

Kitchen

Gingerly

Delicately

Manumission

Declaring somebody free from being a slave

Temperate

Agreeable

Menaced

Threatened

Appraise

Assess

Remounted

Attached

Wrongheadedness

Being misguided

Groveling

Crawling

Perspiration

Sweat

Unleavened

Baking bread without adding yeast

Broached

Raised, like a subject

Assailed

Attacked

Precarious

Dependent upon unknown things, lack of security

Palatinate

Relating to the lands of the count palatine, a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire

Recalcitrant

Difficult to manage, intractable

Obsequious

Fawning

Patter

Chatter, talk quickly and glibly

Demurred

Delayed a response

Conflagration

Large fire; a commotion

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