Part 1 & 2 Vocab

Question 1

BLIGHT

Answer 1

destructive disease:

A blight is on the fruitful plants of the earth.

Question 2

PESTILENCE:

Answer 2

plague

A deadly pestilence, is on our town

Question 3

INDUCED:

Answer 3

persuaded; caused:

The riddling Sphinx induced us to neglect mysterious crimes.

Question 4

DISPATCH:

Answer 4

kill:

May readily wish to dispatch me with his murderous hand.

Question 5

INVOKE:

Answer 5

summon; cause to appear:

Upon the murderer I invoke a curse.

Question 6

PROPHECY:

Answer 6

prediction of the future:

Do not begrudge us ways of prophecy

Question 7

COUNTENANCE:

Answer 7

the look on a person’s face

I have said what I came here to say not fearing your countenance

Question 8

MALIGNANT:

Answer 8

very harmful

Would not one rightly judge and say that on me these things were sent by some malignant God?

Question 9

LAMENTATIONS:

Answer 9

expression of deep sorrow

Black Death grows rich in groaning and in lamentation.

Question 10

EXPIATION:

Answer 10

the act of making amends for wrongdoing

By banishing a man, or expiation of blood by blood, since it is murder guilt.

Question 11

BRAZEN:

Answer 11

of brass or like brass in color

There is no clash of brazen arms.

Question 12

SOVEREIGNTY:

Answer 12

supreme authority:

This is my land where I hold sovereignty.

Question 13

CHIDE:

Answer 13

scold:

Why is it is me you chide?

Question 14

OBSTINACY:

Answer 14

stubbornness; state of being unyielding to reason:

If you think obstinacy without wisdom a valuable possession, you are wrong.

Question 15

BESOTTED

Answer 15

stupefied; foolish:

I am not so besotted yet that I want other honors

Question 16

KNAVISH:

Answer 16

deceitful

I find him plotting with knavish tricks against my person

Question 17

HERALD:

Answer 17

person who makes proclamations and carries messages:

In all there were but five, and among them a herald.

Question 18

INFAMIES:

Answer 18

INFAMIES: items of notorious disgrace and dishonor:

I fled to somewhere where I should not see fulfilled the infamies told in that dreadful oracle.

Question 19

SURFEIT:

Answer 19

excessive supply:

Insolence if it is glutted with a surfeit, breeds the tyrant.

Question 20

FETTERED:

Answer 20

shackled; chained:

I loosed you; the tendons of your feet were pierced and fettered

Question 21

BENEFICENT:

Answer 21

kind; helpful

But I account myself a child of beneficent fortune.

Question 22

CONSONANT:

Answer 22

in harmony or agreement:

His old age is consonant with the other.

Question 23

GRATIFY:

Answer 23

please:

Will you’ll talk to gratify me?

Question 24

INFAMOUS:

Answer 24

disgraceful:

Children by her own child, is an infamous double bond.