Vocabulary

• Usurp – seize and take control without authority

• Harbinger – something indicating the approach of something or someone
• Auspicious – auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
• Censure – harsh criticism or disapproval
• Beguile – influence by slyness
• Canonize – declaring a dead person to be a saint
• Sovereignty – supreme power or authority
• Antic – a playful trick or prank
• Pernicious – working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way 
• Turbulent – characterized by unrest or disorder
• Affront – treat, mention, or speak to rudely
• Pious – having, showing or expressing reverence for a goddess
• Insolence – an offensive disrespectful insolent act
• Awry – away from the correct or expected course
• Melancholy – a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed