cyrano de bergerac vocab
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- Affable
- adj-easy and pleasant to speak to, approachable
- droll
- adj-amusingly odd or whimsically comical
- dubious
- adj-fruaght with uncertainty or doubt, undecided
- enmity
- n-deep seated often mutual hatred
- obsequious
- adj-full of or exhibiting servile compliance, fawning
- acrostic
- n-a poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence.
- Doublet
- n-a close fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by european men between 15th and 17th centuries
- retinue
- n-retainers or attendants accompanying a high ranking person
- whelp
- n-an impudent young fellow
- abject
- adj-brought low in condition or status
- epigrams
- n-short witty poem expressing a single thought or observation
- insolence
- n-the trait of being rude and impertinent, inclined to take liberties
- vacuous
- adj-lacking intelligence stupid
- defiled
- adj-morally blemished, stained or impure
- obstinate
- adj-stubbornly adhering to an attitude opinion or course of action obdurate
- omniscient
- adj-having total knowledge, knowing everything
- stoic
- n-one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy grief pleasure or pain
- vermin
- n- a person considered loathsome or highly offensive
- avowal
- n-a frank admission or acknowledgement
- desolate
- adj-bereft of friends or hope, sad and forlorn
- bequeath
- v-to leave or give by will
- eloquence
- n-the quality of persuasive, powerful expression
- Heresy
- n-a controversial or unorthodox opinion or doctrine, as in politics, philosophy or science
- quintessence
- the pure highly concentrated essence of a thing.
- slanders
- v-to make a false and malicious statement or report buot someone