Citadel- a fortress overlooking a city - "When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there." - Everett Dirkson
Effrontery- shameless boldness - "And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!!" - The Wizard of Oz
inculcation-a repeated statement - "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent." - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (1883 - 1946)
licentious-unrestrained - "Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."- Norman Rockwell
malevolence- wishing misfortune towards others - "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." - Albert Camus
probity-honesty or uprightness - "The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity." - Emerson
prodigious-huge in size or amount - "From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
subtle- tenuous, as a fluid or an odor ? - "The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is." - M. Gandhi
trepidation-a state of fear - A limerick: "asyngamy" by Sheila B. Blume
If two flowers, with great trepidation,
Want to mate and await pollination,
And if they're out of phase
By a couple of days,
They will fail at cross-fertilization.
vindictive- vengeful - "The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust" - Thomas Jefferson