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English Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fray | fight |
| humor | mood |
| pernicious | tending to cause death |
| semblance | outward appearance that is misleading |
| shrift | confession to a priest |
| star-crossed | lucky/doomed |
| visage | face with reference to shape and features |
| amorous | desiring love |
| calamity | causing disaster |
| chaste | pure and decent |
| conduit | device through which something travels |
| constable | police officer |
| cull | select from group, reduce through removal |
| cunning | cleverness |
| feign | to pretend |
| fickle | garish |
| wanton | cruel, uncalled for |
| abominable | very evil/detestable |
| Hordes | large crowd |
| inclined | having a tendency |
| loathsome | highly offensive |
| outlandish | bizarre, strange |
| arrogant | exaggerating one's importance |
| baleful | deadly |
| lout | awkward, brutish person |
| patrimoney | estate inherited from ones father |
| recklessness | irresponsible |
| reckoning | sum, bill, total |
| regale | to give pleasure or enjoyment to |
| renown | acclaim, fame |
| suitor | one that seeks to court a woman |
| trenchers | wooden platter for serving food |
| amble | to walk casually |
| cavalcade | procession of riders, carriages |
| conspirator | someone who conspires |
| flummox | confuse |
| hoard | supply hidden away |
| laden | weighed down by |
| larder | cabinet for non perishables |
| palpitating | to beat rapidly and strongly |
| paraphernalia | specific equipment for any one thing |
| provisions | stock of needed materials |
| subterranean | underground |
| adversary | enemy |
| adversity | hostile situation |
| foreboding | omen of evil |
| harried | harassed |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased |
| knead | to work and press with the hands |
| maelstrom | powerful whirlpool, dangerous situation |
| mustered | to cause to gather |
| ponderous | lifeless, full |
| profusion | extravagance |
| rash | lack of thought |
| restitution | payment for doing wrong |
| revulsion | feeling of complete distaste |
| antiquity | old |
| smite | to strike down |
| sniveling | whining, complaining |
| yield | to give away to allow another person to pass |
| supernal | powerful |
| enforce | to give strength to, to keep up or impose. |
| malicious | deliberately harmful |
| exile | to banish |
| prow | front part of a ship |
| doddering | mentally ill because of old age |
| inexhaustible | unlimited |
| proclamation | formal public statement |
| headstrong | determined to do as one pleases |
| kindle | to start a fire |
| forlorn | desolate |
| enchantment | affect of magic |
| quill | part of a feather |
| commandeer | to seize for military use |
| ballast | heavy substance that improves stability |
| contention | struggle |
| din | loud noise |
| necromancy | magic involving communication with the dead |
| expeditious | fast, prompt |
| rend | to force apart |
| incantation | spell |
| plight | danger or risk |
| pinnacle | highest point |
| dominion | power or the use of power |
| pious | respectful |
| demoralizing | disheartening, destroying |
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