Words to Know: The Tempest

Question 1

Perfidious

Answer 1

the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal; treacherous

Question 2

Inveterate

Answer 2

firmly established by long persistence; confirmed in a habit

Question 3

Extirpate

Answer 3

to destroy completely; wipe out

Question 4

Auspicious

Answer 4

showing or suggesting that a future success is likely

Question 5

Allay

Answer 5

to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity; alleviate; calm

Question 6

Fen

Answer 6

low land that is covered wholly or partly with water

Question 7

Enmity

Answer 7

positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will

Question 8

Repose

Answer 8

to lay at rest

Question 9

Gabardine

Answer 9

a firm, hard-finished durable fabric twilled with diagonal ribs on the right side

Question 10

Supplant

Answer 10

to supersede especially by force or treachery

Question 11

Viceroy

Answer 11

the governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of a kin or sovereign

Question 12

Jocund

Answer 12

marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness

Question 13

Surfeit

Answer 13

an overabundant supply; excess

Question 14

Austerely

Answer 14

stern and cold in appearance or manner; somber; grave

Question 15

Promontory

Answer 15

a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water

Question 16

Penitent

Answer 16

feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; repentant

Question 17

Gallows

Answer 17

a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged

Question 18

Perdition

Answer 18

utter destruction; loss

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Verdure

Answer 19

the greenness of growing vegetation

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Beget

Answer 20

to procreate as the father

Question 21

Prescience

Answer 21

foreknowledge of events

Question 22

Zenith

Answer 22

the highest point reached in the heavens by a celestial body

Question 23

Tempest

Answer 23

a violent storm

Question 24

Whelp

Answer 24

any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog

Question 25

Twain

Answer 25

two; couple, pair

Question 26

Usurp

Answer 26

to seize and hold in possession by force or without right

Question 27

Manacle

Answer 27

a shackle of the hand or wrist; handcuff

Question 28

Chide

Answer 28

to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke; to voice disapproval

Question 29

Abhorrent

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causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred

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Abstemious

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marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking alcohol

Question 31

Cur

Answer 31

a mongrel or inferior dog

Question 32

Dalliance

Answer 32

frivolous action; play

Question 33

Dolorous

Answer 33

causing or expressing misery or grief

Question 34

Nonpareil

Answer 34

having no equal

Question 35

Upbraid

Answer 35

to criticize severely; find fault with