Shakespeare Vocab
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- prodigious
- wonderful; marvelous; extraordinary in size [a prodigious grant or feat.]
- feign
- to fake [feign sickness.]
- augment
- to make larger; increase; add to [His salary is augmented by a small inheritance. ]
- unwieldy
- awkward; ungainly [an unwieldy parcel]
- lamentable
- regrettable; unfortunate [a lamentable decision]
- waver
- to sway to and fro; become unsteady [Her voice wavered.]
- pernicious
- harmful; destructive (adj)
- tedious
- long and tiresome [a tedious journey.]
- peruse
- to read through with thoroughness or care [to peruse a report.]
- cunning
- sly; showing or made with great skill; skillful [a cunning little baby.]
- affliction
- a state of pain, distress, or grief; misery [They sympathized with us in our affliction.]
- abhor
- to hate
- importune
- demand with urgency or persistence
- adversary
- a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe
- loathsome
- causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive [a loathsome skin disease.]
- ambiguous
- open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal [an ambiguous answer]
- choler
- irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability
- shrift
- confession to a priest
- remnant
- a fragment or scrap; a trace left
- solace
- comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort [The minister's visit was the dying man's only solace.]
- calamity
- a great misfortune or disaster [the calamity of war]
- enjoin
- to direct or order to do something [He was enjoined to live more frugally.]
- penury
- extreme poverty
- exile
- a person banished from his or her native land.
- grievance
- a complaint or resentment, as against an unjust or unfair act [to have a grievance against someone.]
- agile
- quick and well-coordinated in movement; lively person [an agile person.]
- fickle
- likely to change [fickle weather]
- eloquent
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively