King Lear Vocabulary List #1
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- Diligence
- care/earnest effort to accomplish a task that is undertaken
- Politic
- wise/tactful
- Dotage
- decrepitude/associated with old age
- Visage
- demeanor/countenace
- Derogate
- bad mouth/to detract from
- Gall
- nerve/rancor
- Epicurism
- philosophy that highest good is pleasure
- Fraught
- full of/filled
- Lethargy
- laziness/drowsy or dull
- Foppish
- mama's boy/fastidious in taste and manor
- Motley
- mixed/heterogenous
- Auspicious
- encouraging/promising success
- Parricide
- killing of one's parent
- Brazen
- cocky/boldly shamless
- Halcyon
- calm/tranquil
- Entreat
- beg/to plead
- Penury
- misery/extreme poverty
- Depravity
- corruption/state of being morally bad or corrupt