Tenuous: weak
Merge: become one
Infection: a condition in which bacteria or viruses that cause disease have entered the body
Devastated: very shocked and upset
Succeed: to take an official job or position after someone else
Infancy: the time when someone is a baby or a very young child
Miscarriage: an early, unintentional end to a pregnancy when the foetus is born too early and dies because it has not developed enough
Vivacious: A vivacious person, especially a woman or girl, is attractively energetic and enthusiastic
Joust: fight on horseback
Trumped-up: not true; invented
Mare: female horse
Amicably: in a friendly way
Dote on sb: to love someone completely and believe they are perfect
Staunch: firm
Treasurer: Keeper of a treasure
The Reformation: the 16th-century religious ideas and activity in Europe that were an attempt to change and improve the Catholic Church, and resulted in the Protestant Churches being established
Archbishop: highest bishop
Decay: to become gradually damaged, worse, or less; to cause something to do this.
Demolish: destroy
Neatly: in a tidy way
Floppy: soft and not able to keep a firm shape or position
