Julius Caesar Vocab For Camosy Quiz (11/20/15) Flashcards
Kindle
To excite; stir up. To become aroused or animated.
Knotty
Involved, intricate, or difficult.
Lament
To feel grief, sorrow.
Legacy
Anything handed down from the past as from an ancestor or predecessor.
Malice
Desire to inflict injury harm on another.
Melancholy
A gloomy state of mind; pensiveness
Mettle
Courage and fortitude
Mirth
Amusement or laughter
Muse
To sink or meditate in silence, as on some subject
Mutinous
Disposed to, or involving revolt against authority
Portent
An indication of something about to happen
Prodigious
Extraordinary in size amount, extent. Wonderful or marvelous
Prodigy
A person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability
Prostration
Extreme mental or emotional depression
Revere
To regard to respect tinged with awe
Rhetoric
The undue use of exaggeration or display
Rout
A disorderly crowd of people
Spurn
To reject with the disdain; scorn
Tarry
To remain or stay, to wait for
Unassailable
Not open to attack or assault
Vexation
Because of annoyance; nuisance
Vouchsafe
To grant or give, as by favor
Vulgarity
The state of quality of being crude, coarse
Indignation
Strong displeasure at something considered unjust.