Winter's Tale vocab

Question 1

Diatribe (n)

Answer 1

An angry speech or article which is extremely critical of someone’s ideas or activities

Question 2

engender (v)

Answer 2

Causing a particular feeling, atmosphere or situation to occur

Question 3

Munificence (n)

Answer 3

the quality or action of being extremely generous

Question 4

Negate (v)

Answer 4

1. causing that other thing to lose the effect or value that it had
2. to say it does not exist

Question 5

Pervasive (adj)

Pervade (v)

Answer 5

something, especially something bad, that is present or felt throughout a place or thing

If one thing pervades another, it is a noticeable feature throughout it

Question 6

Prelapsarian (adj)

Answer 6

Characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoilt

Question 7

Repudiate (v)

Answer 7

to show that one strongly disagrees with them, and do not want to be connected with them in anyway

Question 8

Bucolic (adj)

Answer 8

Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside or country life

Question 9

Edenic

Answer 9

Relating to or characteristic of the garden of Eden, unspoilt and idyllic

Question 10

Halcyon (adj)

Answer 10

A time in the past that was peaceful or happy

Question 11

Homosocial (adj)

Answer 11

Social interaction between members of the same sex, typically men

Question 12

Interlocutor (n)

Answer 12

A person with whom you are having a conversation

Question 13

Mercurial

Answer 13

someone who frequently changes their mind or mood without warning

Question 14

Reproach

Answer 14

to show or say that you are disappointed, upset, or angry because they have done something wrong