Balked
Hesitated
Condoned
Approved of, sanctioned
Consumption
A wasting disease particularly brought on by pulmonary infection
Decadence
Moral or cultural deterioration
Dryad
Wood nymph
Fugue
Composition where a short melody is started by one part and taken up by other parts
Guillotine
Machine for beheading by dropping a heavy blade
Harlemites
People who hail from Harlem in New York City
Impoverished
Made poor
Intelligensia
Intellectual class regarded as having artistic and cultural ideas and initiative
Intimate
Having a close personal relationship
Minstrel
Entertainer with a blackened face mimicking an Aftican American
Nondescript
Bland, not noteworthy
Occult
Involving supernatural phenomena
Oxfords
Oxford bags - loose fitting baggy pants popularized by jazz musicians
Prostrate
Lying face-down, usually in submission
Protégée
Person who is under tutelage or protection
Rejuvenating
Making as if younger again
Repertoire
Stock of regularly performed pieces
Rickety
Badly constructed, shaky
Sanctified
Made a saint, or made to seem like one
Seldom
Rarely
Syphilis
Contagious infection of the genitals that spreads to the brain
Whist
Card game for four players
