Acclivity
Upward slope
Etiquette
Appropriate behavior and ceremony
Deference
Respect, courtesy regard
Corinth
A Mississippi town; the site of a 1862 Civil War battle
Dictum
Formal Statement of a fact or opinion
Summarily hanged
Right now! Without formality
Apprised
Informed and notified
Picket post
Troops sent ahead of a surprise attack
Tow
Course, broken fibers of hemp of flax before spinning
Preternaturally
Abnormally, extraordinary, beyond a natural state
Presaging
Predicting, warning
Martinet
Strict military disciplinarian
Diminuendo
Musical term meaning reduction in volume
Charge of Grape
Cluster of small iron balls shot from a
cannon
Roseate
Rose-colored
Aeolian Harps
Wind chimes
Ineffable Joy
So happy that one is speechless
Stockade
A military enclosure
Stonily
Motionless like a stone
Dignitary
A VIP, or very important person
The Liberal military code
Large, substantial
Death Knell
Loud church bell that rings when a member of the community dies
Ardently devoted to the Southern case
Whole-heartedly or 100%
An Imperious nature
Domineering, arrogant, with authority
Encompassed in a luminous cloud
(enclosed or within) (filled with light)
Cynical / Cynicism
Sarcastic pessimistic
Malice / Malicious
Meanness, cruelty
Concise
Brief, short
Futility
Useless, pointless
Satire
Mockery, ridicule
Protrude
To stick out; to project
Assent
To express agreement
Adorn
To make beautiful
Malign
Harmful; evil
Sentinel
Guard; sentry
Chafed
Scratched, irritated
Appalling
Awful, terrible, dismaying
Oscillation
Regular back-and-forth movement
Perilous
Dangerous
Gyration
Circular movement
Fatigued and famishing
(extremely tired) and (extremely hungry)