MSND Vocab 1

Question 1

Beguile

Answer 1

Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

Question 2

Chide

Answer 2

To speak out in angry or displeased rebuke

Question 3

Dote

Answer 3

To be lavish or excessive in one’s attention, fondness, or affectionF

Question 4

Feign

Answer 4

To give a false appearance of

Question 5

Austerity

Answer 5

A plain and simply quality; a stern and serious quality

Question 6

Cloister

Answer 6

An area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted

Question 7

Reveling

Answer 7

To take intense pleasure or satisfaction

Question 8

Wanton

Answer 8

Malicious, limitless, unduly lavish, sensual, playfully cruel, hard to control

Question 9

Progeny

Answer 9

Offspring, outcome

Question 10

Flout

Answer 10

To treat with scorn

Question 11

Dissemble

Answer 11

To hide under a false appearance

Question 12

Idolatry

Answer 12

To worship a physical object or living thing as a god

Question 13

Promontory

Answer 13

A high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water; a prominent mass of land overlooking or projecting into a lowland

Question 14

Extenuate

Answer 14

To lesson or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of something by making partial excuses