palpable clear to the mind; obvious; evident; plain.
parapets walls or banks used to screen troops from frontal enemy fire, sometimes placed along the top of a rampart.
pestilence anything, as a doctrine, regarded as harmful or dangerous.
pillory any exposure to public scorn, etc.
poltroons thorough cowards.
poops on sailing ships, a poop is a raised deck at the stern, sometimes forming the roof of a cabin.
portended an omen or warning of; foreshadowed; presaged.
portent something that portends an event about to occur, esp. an unfortunate event; omen.
posterity all of a person's descendants.
pre-empted seized before anyone else can, excluding others; appropriated beforehand.
presage a sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent.
profaned desecrated, debased, or defiled.
profaned treated with irreverence or contempt; desecrated.
prophecy prediction of the future under the influence of divine guidance; act or practice of a prophet.
propitious that favors or furthers; advantageous.
pume to foam or froth.
quail to draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower.
quailed drew back in fear; lost heart or courage; cowered.
quandaries perplexing situations or positions; dilemmas.
railed spoken bitterly or reproachfully; complained violently.
rampart an embankment of earth, usually surmounted by a parapet, encircling a castle, fort, etc., for defense against attack.
rankled to cause or cause to have long-lasting anger, rancor, resentment, etc.
redoubt a breastwork outside or within a fortification.
reparation a making of amends; making up for a wrong or injury.
repose to rest or lie at rest.
requisite required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable.
retinue a body of assistants, followers, or servants attending a person of rank or importance; train of attendants or retainers.
rills little brooks; rivulets.
roil to work hard and continuously; labor.
rondure a circle or sphere; roundness.
rout an overwhelming defeat.
rowans the European mountain ash, a tree with pinnately compound leaves, white flowers, and red berries.
