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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night project words
Question | Answer |
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Quality | rank: nature |
practice | profession |
Encounter | approach |
Pilchers | small fish related to the heaving |
Late | lately: recently |
Art | learning, skill |
Haggard | wild hawk |
Wit | intelligence corruption for it |
List | limit, boundary |
Pregnant | receptive |
Abuse | deceive; wrong |
Cypress | Thin [almost transparent] cloth veil |
Proper | handsome |
Orchard | garden |
Argument | token, evidence |
Grand-jury-Men | those who decide whether there is sufficient evidence to bring a case to trail |
I Warrant | I'm sure |
Understand | stand under, hold me up |
Check at | turn to follow |
fit | fitting, appropriate |
Quality | rank, nature |
Degree | step |
abatement | the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease; alleviation; mitigation. |
Abjured | to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant |
Accost | to confront boldly |
Brine | the sea or ocean. |
Discourse | to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit. |
Elysium | the abode of the blessed after death. |
Eunuch | a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by Oriental rulers as a harem guard or palace official |
Excepted | to exclude; leave out |
Naught | nothing. |
Perchance | perhaps, maybe, by chance |
Pestilence | something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil |
Prattle | to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble. |
Prodigal | giving or yielding profusely; lavish |
Prosper | to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish |
Provident | having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future |
Prudent | wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober |
Surfeit | excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking |