Vocab

Question 0

Fourtuneteller

Answer 0

Soothsayer

Question 1

one who secretly plots to carry out an evil or illegal act

Answer 1

Conspirator

Question 2

submissive; like a slave

Answer 2

Servile

Question 3

unable to bear children

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Barren

Question 4

Face

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Countenance or visage

Question 5

a swift, violent stream

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Torrent

Question 6

to include; to contain within

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Encompass

Question 7

weakness; disability

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Infirmity

Question 8

abrupt; frank; outspoken

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Blunt

Question 9

ominous; warning of things to come

Answer 9

Portentous

Question 10

to beg for earnestly; to plead

Answer 10

Beseech

Question 11

to grieve; to express sorrow

Answer 11

Lament

Question 12

a curved timber with attachments used for coupling draft animals (i.e. oxen); a double harness or collar used to bind draft animals

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Yoke

Question 13

a violent wind accompanied with rain or snow; a violent storm

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Tempest

Question 14

Dangerous

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Perilous

Question 15

the pseudo-science of changing base metals (like lead) into precious metals (like gold)

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Alchemy

Question 16

A candle

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Taper

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To reject or to scorn

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Spurn

Question 18

low in rank or position

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Base

Question 19

to increase; to make greater

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Augment

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Rebellion

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insurrection

Question 21

Friendliness; pleasantness

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affability

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compensation; satisfaction

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Redress

Question 23

faithfulness; resolution

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Constancy

Question 24

likely to happen soon

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Imminent

Question 25

a poisonous snake

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Adder

Question 26

to sharpen (i.e. a knife or an ax)

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Whet

Question 27

a dead body of an animal

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Carcass

Question 28

a priest who foretold, from omens, the future

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Augur

Question 29

plague

Answer 29

Contagion

Question 30

to summon the spirit of a dead person

Answer 30

Conjure

Question 31

brave; courageous

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Valiant

Question 32

The heavens; the sky

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firmament

Question 33

evil intent; the desire to harm another

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Malice

Question 34

uneasy; anxious about the future

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Apprehensive

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to judge; modern: to blame or to criticize inter: to bury

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Censure

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an inheritance; anything handed down from an ancestor

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Legacy

Question 37

a skilled public speaker

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Orator

Question 38

Common people

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plebeians

Question 39

A formal request

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Petition

Question 40

to expel a person from his homeland

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Banish

Question 41

the day of the Last Judgment or of any final judgment

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Doomsday

Question 42

lying prone or with the face to the ground

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Prostrate

Question 43

An enemy

Answer 43

Foe