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Pimpernel Vocab
Vocabulary for the Final Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One who takes part in a conversation | Interlocuter |
| Races in search of plunder | marauders |
| supporters of the king | royalists |
| opening | aperture |
| stuborness | obstinancy |
| full of something | fraught |
| knight | cavelier |
| drowsy or sleepy | somnolent |
| object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune | talisman |
| people sent on a mission | emissaries |
| disobedience to authority | insubordination |
| forboding or foreshadowing evil | ominously |
| thorough destruction | holocaust |
| slow; deliberate; secret in action or character | stealthy |
| deadly; destructive | pernicious |
| healing ointment | balm |
| mysterious or hard to understand | enigmatical |
| mechanical; lacking interest or enthusiasm | perfunctory |
| lacking something | bereft |
| strength of mind | fortitude |
| dirty | squalid |
| bold or arrogant | audacity |
| having a narrow view point | insularity |
| doing something secretly | surreptitiously |