ELA Winter Final Vocab

Question 1

A message in writing (formal); letter

Answer 1

missive

Question 2

To attack or criticize someone violently; to cause someone to experience unpleasant things

Answer 2

assail

Question 3

Greedy especially for wealth; strong wish to keep money or possessions

Answer 3

avarice

Question 4

Dark or gloomy

Answer 4

murky

Question 5

To give up, surrender

Answer 5

yield (v)

Question 6

Severe criticism or disapproval

Answer 6

censure

Question 7

Showing moderation or self-control; calm

Answer 7

temperate

Question 8

To kill; to do something quickly

Answer 8

dispatch

Question 9

A strong sense of honesty and morality; firmness of moral and ethical character

Answer 9

integrity

Question 10

A confused and uncontrolled crowd; disorderly mob

Answer 10

rabble

Question 11

Worthy of praise

Answer 11

laudable

Question 12

To damage or spoil

Answer 12

mar

Question 13

Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Answer 13

malevolent

Question 14

To renounce(declare) solemnly

Answer 14

abjure

Question 15

To take a position/power illegally or by force

Answer 15

usurp

Question 16

A substance that counteracts poison or disease; something that counteracts an unpleasant feeling or situation

Answer 16

antidote

Question 17

Immoral or evil act

Answer 17

vice

Question 18

Cheerful and friendly

Answer 18

jovial

Question 19

To cause to become calmer, especially by satisfying demands or making concessions

Answer 19

appease

Question 20

Having a harmful or fatal effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way; destructive

Answer 20

pernicious

Question 21

Relating to the human body; a rank of the army

Answer 21

corporal

Question 22

The betrayal of one’s country, especially by attempting to war against it or aiding its enemies by information

Answer 22

treason

Question 23

To compensate to or for

Answer 23

redress

Question 24

To call up; make an effort to produce something within oneself

Answer 24

summon

Question 25

All of one person’s descendants; all future generations of people

Answer 25

posterity

Question 26

Regard with intense horror or hatred; hated

Answer 26

abhor

Question 27

Ability to cope with difficulties; toughness or courage

Answer 27

mettle

Question 28

To make someone anxious or unsettled; mental uneasiness

Answer 28

perturb

Question 29

Someone or something that foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence

Answer 29

harbinger

Question 30

a rhyme scheme in which each line consists of ten syllables

Answer 30

iambic pentameter

Question 31

unstressed - stressed

Answer 31

iamb

Question 32

What does iambic pentameter represent in shakespeare’s play?

Answer 32

noble; high position in society

Question 33

What does prose represent?

Answer 33

lower social class; moving away from nobility

Question 34

when one or two syllables are added to the line iambic pentameter

Answer 34

feminine endings

Question 35

stressed - unstressed

Answer 35

trochee

Question 36

iambic pentameter but not “pentameter” (or ten syllables)

Answer 36

trochaic tetrameter

Question 37

trochaic tetrameter but seven syllables

Answer 37

catalectic trochaic tetrameter

Question 38

Witches’ language is often catalectic trochaic tetrameter. What does this fact represent?

Answer 38

Never trust a witch; even their language is mysterious and untrustworthy

Question 39

when two consecutive lines of iambic pentameter end with a rhyme

Answer 39

couplets