AVATAR, n.: any incarnation of a quality
 
SAGACIOUS, adj.: showing keen judgement or perception.
 
CRENELLATED, adj.: finished with notches atop battlements. 
 
INGRESS, n.: entrance.
 
EGRESS, n:  exit.
 
IMPROVISORATI, n:  actors.
 
VOLUPTUOUS, adj.:  full of pleasure.
 
DEPENDED, v.:  hung down from.
 
COUNTENANCES, n.:  faces.
 
CONSTRAINED, adj.: forced to do a thing.
 
PERFORCE, adv.:  necessarily.
 
DISCONCERT, n./vt.:  discomfort.
 
TREMULOUSNESS, adj.:  trembling or quivering.
 
FETE, n.:  ball or party.
 
PHANTASM, n.:  a thing with no reality, a figment of the mind.
 
"OUT HERODED HEROD":  Herod the Biblical king of Isael who mudered
                      infants.  In _Hamlet_, Hamlet refers to
                      Caludius as "out-Heroding herod."
 
SCUTINY, n.:  look at or search into carefully.
 
MUMMER, n.:  any person who wears a mask. From the British custom of
             traveling masked actors (Christmastime) who act out
             short pantomimes.
 
VESTURE, n.:  clothing.
 
"LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT":  passage in the Bible that describes death
                              as coming "like a thief in the night."