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EnglishFinalYorkPrep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Languish | to waste away |
| Chaste | to Abstain from sex |
| Vanity | excessive pride |
| Loins | |
| covert | secret |
| pernicious | causing serious harm |
| profaner | totreat something sacred with disrespect |
| heretics | someone with unconventional beliefs |
| Piteous | deserving of pity |
| adversary | enemy or opponent |
| weaned | to slowly free of dependance |
| portentous | signifigant especially with regard to future events |
| beauteous | beautiful to look at |
| gall | audacity |
| strife | bitter conflict or rivalry |
| tyrannous | to act in a tyrannical manner |
| scorn | severe disdain |
| augment | to increase |
| devout | very religious |
| posterity | future generations |
| reckoning | to calculate |
| importuned | to bother someone insistantly |
| mutiny | rebellion against legal authority |
| partisan | weapon with long shaft |
| propogate | to foster the spread of |
| transgression | action violating law or code |
| defiance | open defiance of authority |
| greivance | reason for complaint |
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| solemnity | solemn nature of something |
| visage | face/apperance |
| loathed | to intensly dislike somebody or something |
| spite | petty ill will |
| bode | a sign or something in the future |
| woo | to seek womans love |
| semblance | a trace of something |
| disparagement | to criticize |
| wantons | people with loose morals |
| revels | noisy celebration |
| vile | disgusting |
| endure | to bear hardship |
| boisterous | noisy, energetic, and rowdy |
| podigious | great in extent or marvelous |
| corns | hardened uncomfortable area on foot |
| ambling | to walk slowly |
| nuptial | relating to marrige or weddings |
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