| allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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| aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
| (noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
| cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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| (noun) a funeral procession | - |
| liege | (adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service | - |
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| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| (noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| protege | (noun) a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career | - |
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| renege | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: revoke |
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| (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |