| assiduously | carefully |
| expostulate | argue |
| vicar | a parish priest |
| formidable | inspiring fear |
| obliquely | with a change of direction |
| portmanteau | suitcase |
| exultation | celebration |
| decapitate | to remove one's head |
| intricate | full of elaborate detail |
| patent | obvious |
| intermittently | periodically |
| froth | churn |
| inaudibly | not able to be heard |
| confluence | where rivers join |