Act I Flashcards

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Assail

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To attack

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Entreat

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To beg; to ask

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Fortified

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Shielded; secured; protected

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Illume

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To brighten; to lighten

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Usurp

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To seize; to confiscate

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Avouch

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To certify; to confirm; to guarantee

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Esteem

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To honor; to respect; to prize; to treasure

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Ratified

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Approved; confirmed; legalized

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Mettle

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Endurance; bravery

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Resolutes

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Brave; fearless; relentless people

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Portentous

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Foreboding; threatening; sinister

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Privy

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Made participant in a secret

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Discretion

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Permission to make decisions with own judgement

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Auspicious

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Delightful; joyous; happy; lucky; favorable

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Dirge

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Funeral song; death march

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Dole

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Sadness

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Visage

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The face or facial expression of a person

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Denote

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To indicate; to mark; to signal; to mean

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Countenance

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Appearence; facial expression / v. - to condone

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Requite

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To avenge

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Calumnious

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Slanderous; attacking one’s character

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Precept

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Rule; principle

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Perilous

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Dangerous

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Importuned

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Insistently begged

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Traduced

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To slander; to speak falsely of

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Pernicious

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Deadly