English B
Terms
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- gambols
- to skip about in play
- imminent
- threatening, perilous
- barren
- unable to bear children or unable to reproduce; sterile
- imbecile
- a mentally deficient person
- valiant
- brave, courageous
- vulgar
- the common people; of the common people
- battlement
- the upper part of a castle wall with alternating raised and lowered sections from which a battle could be fought
- grouse
- complain
- scythe
- an implenent used for mowing
- allayed
- to make less sereve
- impecunious
- having very little or no money
- impregnable
- not capable of being taken by assault
- conceit
- to think, grasp, or estimate
- construe
- to explain or interpret
- imperturbably
- marked by extreme calm, impassivity
- pusillanimous
- lacking courage and resolution
- extremities
- condition or state of extreme needs
- dextrously
- skillful and competent with the hands
- ordinance
- normal or usual placement of things in the world; natural order
- queried
- to put as qeustions
- congitation
- thoughts or ideas; the act of thinking or contemplating
- imprudent
- rash, unwise
- mechanical
- a manual worker; a person who performs manual labor.
- circumvent
- to go around
- mattock
- an implement for digging
- fray
- a noisy quarrel
- wary
- careful, watchful; on one's guard
- prevail
- to prove superior in power or influence; to win out
- reprehensible
- worthy of or deserving censure or blame
- faction
- a political party or group; set of conspiratore, intrigue
- conjuror
- to entreat earnestly or solemnly
- odious
- causing or deserving hatred or repughance
- betwixt
- an archaic form of between
- thrice
- three times
- repugnant
- contrary, incompatiable
- throng
- crowd or mob
- foolscap
- a cap or hood
- cipher
- an insignificant individual
- countenance
- appearance, especially of the face
- contrive
- to conspire; to invent
- entreaties
- to ask earnestly or urently