| abate | to reduce in intensity or amount |
| amity | friendship |
| auspicious | favorable |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values |
| bedlam | a place or scene of wild and mad uproar; an extremely confusing scene |
| beguile | the deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm |
| bestow | to grant or give |
| clamor | loud noise or shouting |
| contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| debauchery | moral corruption |
| defile | to make dirty, to pollute |
| degeneration | a state of decline |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicket or perverse act |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| diffidence | shyness, reserve, unassertiveness |
| diffuse | to spread in all directions |
| diligent | characterized by steady, attentive, and energetic effort in a pursuit or study |
| discern | to differentiate between two or more things |
| disdain | intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
| dotard | a senile person |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| engender | to cause, to produce, to create |
| enmity | absolute hatred |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
King Lear Definitions
July 3, 2019