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::: antecedents - preceding events that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background
::: contumacious - stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
::: punctilious - minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points; stressing niceties of conduct or form; N. punctilio, punctiliousness: careful attention payed to every small exact detail
::: imponderable - weightless; that cannot undergo precise evaluation; CF. pound
::: torrid - (of weather) hot or scorching; passionate; Ex. torrid love affairs
::: parasite - animal or plant living on another; toady; sycophant; CF. para-: beside
::: transgression - violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong
::: portly - stout; corpulent
::: infinitesimal - very small
::: vortex - whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged