Words Everywhere!

This is mostly vocabulary encountered in my cryptic, Elizabethan translation of Aescylus’s Agamemnon. I’m enjoying the language so much, as I’m now reading Libation-Bearers by the same translator, but I enjoy it more when I spend time looking up some of the more archaic vernacular. Here are my most recent queries (as defined by Dictionary.com):

• effluvium: (n.) a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, esp. one that is disagreeable or noxious.
• counterfactual: (adj.) |Logic| a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as "If I had known."
• execrate: (tr.v.) to detest utterly, abhor, abominate; to curse; to imprecate evil upon, damn, denounce. (v.i.) to utter curses.
• imprecate: (tr.v.) to invoke or call down [evil or curses], as upon a person.
• anon: (adv.) in a short time, soon; at another time. (idiom: "ever and anon") now and then; occasionally.
• bulwark: (n.) a wall of earth or other material built for defense, a rampart; any protection against external danger, injury, or annoyance; any person or thing giving strong support or encouragement in time of need, danger, or doubt; |Nautical| {usu. plural} a solid wall enclosing the perimeter of a weather or main deck for the protection of person or objects on deck. (tr.v.) to fortify or protect with a bulwark; to secure by or as if by a fortification.
• deign: (v.i) to think fit in accordance with one's dignity; to condescend. (tr.v.) to condescend by refusing to give or grant.
• aught: (n.) anything whatever, any part. {Also ought}
• wroth: (adj.) angry, wrathful, usu. used predicatively; stormy, violent, turbulent.
• descry: (tr.v.) to see [something unclear or distant] by looking carefully; to discern, espy; to discover, perceive, detect.
• fulsome: (adj.) offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross; disgusting, sickening, repulsive; excessively or insincerely lavish; encompassing all aspects, comprehensive; abundant or copious.
• charnel house: (n.) a house or place in which the bodies or bones of the dead are deposited.
• repine: (v.i.) to be fretfully discontented; to fret; to complain.
• rapine: (n.) the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
• fain: (adv.) gladly, willingly. (adj.) content; willing.
• burgher: (n.) an inhabitant of a town, esp. a member of the middle class; a citizen.
• diffident: (adj.) lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid or shy; restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.
• kine: (n.) plural of cow, in an archaic sense.
• comport: (tr.v.) to bear or conduct [oneself]; to behave. (v.i) to be in agreement, harmony, or conformity, usu. followed by "with."
• meed: (n.) a reward or recompense.
• cavil: (v.i.) to raise irritating and trivial objections; to find fault with unnecessarily, usu. followed by "at" or "about." (tr.v.) to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or shame objections. (n.) a trivial and annoying objection; the raising of such objections.
• presage: (n.) a presentiment or foreboding; something the portends of foreshadows; an open, prognostic, or warning indication; prophetic significance; augury; foresight; prescience. (tr.v.) to have a presentiment of [an act, etc.]; to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow; to forecast or predict. (v.i) to make a prediction.
• perforce: (adv.) of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance.
• plaint: (n.) a complaint; |Law| a statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress; a lament, lamentation.
• travail: (n.) painfully difficult or burdensome work, toil; pain, anguish, or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship; the pain of childbirth. (v.i.) to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor; to toil or exert oneself.
• mountebank: (n.) a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.; a charlatan or quack. (v.i.) to act or operate as a mountebank.
• faugh: (interjection) used to express contempt or disgust.