Adversary | one’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute |
Abased | behave in a way that belittles or degrades someone |
Spurious | not being what it purports to be; false or fake |
Despondency | low spirits from loss of hope or courage |
Rankled | cause continusing annoyance or resentment |
Subordinate | lower in rank or position |
Approbation | approval or praise |
Suppliants | a person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power |
Wan | pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion |
Untenable | not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection |
Uncouth | lacking good manners, refinement or grace |
Pretext | a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason |
Insolent | showinga rude and arrogant lack of respect |
Ingrate | an ungrateful person |
Placable | easily calmed; gentle and forgiving |
Vestige | a trace or remanat of something that is disappearing or no longer exists |
Corroborated | confirm or give support to |
Commiserate | express or feel sympathy or pity |
Entreat | ask earnestly or anxiously |
Affront | an action or remark that causes out rage or offence |
Diabolical | characterisics of the devil or evil |
Surmising | suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it |
Appalled | greatly dismay or horrify |
Felicitous | well chosen or suited to the circumstances…pleasing and fortunate |
Transfixed | cause someone to become motionless with horror or wonder |
Trepidation | a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen |
Exonerated | absolve from blame for a fault or wrong doing… release someoe from duty |
Emphatic | expressing something forcibly and clearly |
Dissuading | persuade not to take a particular course of action |
Augmented | having been made greater in size or value |
Erudition | the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning |
Venerated | respected |
Reproachful | expressing disapproval or disappointment |
Tremulous | shaking or quivering slightly… timid; nervous |
Absolve | declare someone free from guilt, obligation, or punishment |
Amiable | having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner |
Genteel | exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, respectability |
Odious | extremely unpleasant; repulsive |
Affable | friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to |
Irrepressible | not be able to be controlled or retrained |
Unreservedly | not restricted; full; entire; unqualified |
Dolefully | expressing sorrow…causing grief |
Audacious | showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks |
Abashed | embarrassed, ashamed, remorseful |
Compress | flatten by pressure; squeeze or press |
Guileless | innocent and without deception |
Obscurely | not discovered or known about; uncertain |
Benefactor | a person who gives money or other help to a person or cause |
English 4 Hamlet Vocabulary
August 21, 2019