Vocab Handmaids tale

Question 1

Resistance

Answer 1

A secret group organized to overthrow the government

Question 2

Litany

Answer 2

Any long and tedious address or recital

Question 3

Wane

Answer 3

Becomes smaller

Question 4

Penance

Answer 4

Voluntary self punishment in order to atone for something

Question 5

Subversive

Answer 5

In opposition to an established system of government

Question 6

Languid

Answer 6

Lacking spirit or liveliness

Question 7

Implacable

Answer 7

Incapable of being appeased or pacified

Question 8

Perfidy

Answer 8

An act of deliberate betrayal

Question 9

Affable

Answer 9

Diffusing warmth and friendliness

Question 10

Treachery

Answer 10

An act of deliberate betrayal

Question 11

Bereaved

Answer 11

A person who has suffered the death of someone they love

Question 12

Scalloped

Answer 12

Decorate with a margin or border of semicircles

Question 13

Palimpsest

Answer 13

A manuscript on which more than one text has been written

Question 14

Insatiable

Answer 14

Impossible to fulfill, appease or gratify

Question 15

Archaic

Answer 15

So extremely old as seeming to belong in an earlier era