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Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discourse | Written or spoken communication or debate. |
| Consort | To associate with someone typically with the disapproval of others. |
| Dexterity | Skills in performing tasks especially with the hands. |
| Exile | To expel or bar someone from their native country typically for political reasons |
| Amorous | Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire. |
| Garish | Obtrusively bright and showy lurid |
| Tedious | Too long, too slow, or too dull; tiresome or monotonous. |
| Banish | To send someone away from a country or place as an official punishment |
| Dissemble | To conceal ones true beliefs, thought, or feelings. |
| Adversity | Difficulties; misfortune |
| Rail | To express objections or criticisms in a harsh, bitter, or obtrusive language |
| Fickle | Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability especially with regards to affection and attachment |
| Inundation | A flooding or an overwhelming number of people or things |
| Prostrate | To lie oneself downward on the ground |
| Melancholy | A pensive sadness with no obvious cause |
| Dirge | A lament for the dead forming part of a funeral right |
| Inexorable | Impossible to stop or prevent |
| Auspicious | Showing or suggesting that future success is likely |
| Sepulcher | A monumental in stone or rock built where the dead are laid or buried in |
| Ambiguity | Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language |
| Betroth | To enter into formal agreement to marry |