Foe

Foe Glossary

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

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