Literature Exam 3 - Salacker

Question 1

prophetic

Answer 1

adj - accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future

Question 2

imperial

Answer 2

adj - relating to an empire

Question 3

recompense

Answer 3

n - conpensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made
v - to make amends to someone for loss or harm suffered; compensate

Question 4

chastise

Answer 4

v - to rebuke or reprimand severely

Question 5

beguile

Answer 5

v - to help pass time pleasantly
v - to charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way

Question 6

entreat

Answer 6

v - toask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something

Question 7

augment

Answer 7

v - tomake something greater by adding to it

Question 8

counterfeit

Answer 8

n - fraudulent imitation ofsomething else; a forgery
v - to imitate fraudulently
adj - made in exact imitation of something valuable orimportant with the intention to deceive or defraud

Question 9

treasonous

Answer 9

adj - involving or guilty of the crime of betraying one’s country

Question 10

predecessor

Answer 10

n - person who held a job oroffice before the current holder

Question 11

conjure

Answer 11

v - to call upon to appear, by means of a magic ritual

Question 12

apparition

Answer 12

a ghost or ghostlike image of a person

Question 13

pernicious

Answer 13

adj - having a harmful efect, especcially in a gradual way

Question 14

voluptousness

Answer 14

n - quality ofbeing characterize by luxury or sensual pleasure
adj - relating to or characterized by luxury or sensual pleasure

Question 15

relish

Answer 15

n - great enjoment
v - to enjoy greatly

Question 16

pertubation

Answer 16

n - a deviation of a system, moving object, orprocess from its regular or normal stateor path, caused by an outside influence
n - anxiety; mental uneasiness

Question 17

speculatice

Answer 17

adj - engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge

Question 18

arbitrate

Answer 18

v - to reach an authoritative judgement or settlement

Question 19

tarring

Answer 19

v - to stay longer than intented; delay leaving a place

Question 20

usurper

Answer 20

n - a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force

Question 21

lament

Answer 21

n - a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
v - to mourn

Question 22

forged

Answer 22

adj - formed or shaped often with blows or pressure after heating
v - to make or shape with blows or pressure after heating

Question 23

shroud

Answer 23

n - a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial

Question 24

infamous

Answer 24

adj - well known for some negative quality or deed

Question 25

writhing

Answer 25

adj - making twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body

Question 26

reprove

Answer 26

v - to reprimand or censure

Question 27

concede

Answer 27

v - to admitthat something is true or valid after first denying it
v - to surrender o yeild

Question 28

disperse

Answer 28

v - to distribute or spread over a wide area

Question 29

arrogance

Answer 29

n - the quality of being one who has an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities

Question 30

suffice

Answer 30

v - to be enough or adequate

Question 31

bestowed

Answer 31

v - to confer or present

Question 32

rebuke

Answer 32

v - to express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their behavior or actions

Question 33

jovial

Answer 33

adj - cheerful and friendly

Question 34

folly

Answer 34

n - lack of good sense; foolishness

Question 35

wayward

Answer 35

adj - difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse behavior