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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night project words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Quality | rank: nature |
| practice | profession |
| Encounter | approach |
| Pilchers | small fish related to the heaving |
| Late | lately: recently |
| Art | learning, skill |
| Haggard | wild hawk |
| Wit | intelligence corruption for it |
| List | limit, boundary |
| Pregnant | receptive |
| Abuse | deceive; wrong |
| Cypress | Thin [almost transparent] cloth veil |
| Proper | handsome |
| Orchard | garden |
| Argument | token, evidence |
| Grand-jury-Men | those who decide whether there is sufficient evidence to bring a case to trail |
| I Warrant | I'm sure |
| Understand | stand under, hold me up |
| Check at | turn to follow |
| fit | fitting, appropriate |
| Quality | rank, nature |
| Degree | step |
| abatement | the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease; alleviation; mitigation. |
| Abjured | to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant |
| Accost | to confront boldly |
| Brine | the sea or ocean. |
| Discourse | to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit. |
| Elysium | the abode of the blessed after death. |
| Eunuch | a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by Oriental rulers as a harem guard or palace official |
| Excepted | to exclude; leave out |
| Naught | nothing. |
| Perchance | perhaps, maybe, by chance |
| Pestilence | something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil |
| Prattle | to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble. |
| Prodigal | giving or yielding profusely; lavish |
| Prosper | to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish |
| Provident | having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future |
| Prudent | wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober |
| Surfeit | excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking |