Hence those words are coming from history stuff, there are a couple of words in the list that are out of vogue today, so please make sure that you know how they should be pronounced.
Thank you for your kind help.
laird
to cripple
flatly contradictory
to bristle
maladroit
obtuse
to contemn
allusion
civil disturbance
to thrive
coolly
protracted
misadventure
supple
hand-to-mouth
to allay
to blight
other-worldly
to cobble together
skirmish
efflux
diminution
cerebral
acumen
to discountenance
subterfuge
amiss
lukewarm
to hearken to
perquisite
forward
seasonably
devotion
inexorably
to belie
to stumble into
bleak
confessedly
haemorrhage
reprehension
alteration
brush-off
to engross
cantankerous
vicinity
to double-cross
intractable
deployment
distemper
thither
peremptory
worldling
cessation
malady
intransigent
ethereal
adamant
propensity
to interpose
delusive
covetous
to defray
futile
pillory
solicitous
egregious
errant
importunity
fitful
at the head of a file of musketeers
wreckage
