Foe
Enemy
Cultivate
To create or grow something
Ignorant
Being rude and refusing to accept other people’s ideas/cultures
Embrace
Either holding someone closely in a hug or, in the context of ideas, accepting other people’s ideas willingly
Yield
To give in to someone else’s arguments
Vigilant
Keeping a close eye or watch on something/someone
Tyranny
A cruel and oppressive government
Revulsion
Feeling a sense of disgust
Accustomed
Used to something or someone
Transoms
A flat surface forming the stern of a vessel, often steel
Magistrate
A civil judge or state official dealing in minor offenses and holding preliminary hearings prior to more serious ones
Afterbirth
The placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus after birth
Hawking
Noisy clearing of the throat, often bringing up phlegm
Pamonhas
Corn cakes made by the indigenous people of Brazil
Desiccated
The state of something with all moisture removed
Chaplain
A member of the clergy attached to a private chapel
Flagellants
Those who subject themselves or others to flogging, typically for religious or sexual purposes
Dahomeyans
People from the African kingdom of Dahomey in the region of present day Benin
Turnkey
A jailer
Bemuse
Puzzle, confuse, bewilder