Entreat | (v) To beg |
Assail | (V) Attack violently, assault (normally verbally) |
Brazen | (adj.) shameless, impudent; made of brass |
Emulate | (v) to copy; to try to excel |
Mettle | (n) strength; courage; endurance |
Portentous | (adj) of momentous or ominous significance; (v)= to portent |
Harbinger | An announcer; A person or thing that is a symbol of what is to come |
Obsequious | (adj) Overly submissive and eager to please (negative connotation) |
Beseech | (v) To beg, to plead, impolore (a little more begg;y and a little less acting nicely) |
Countenance | (n) A person’s face or facial expression (v) to support or agree with |
Besmirch | verb: damage the good name and reputation of someon |
Beguile | (v) To bewitch/ seduce into your way of thinking |
Sepulcher | (n) A tomb, grave, or burial place (adj) like the grave or tomb: i.e. the mood was sepulcher=gloomy sad mood |
Lewd | offensive in a sexual manner |
Antic | (v) to act in a bizarre way (n) his antics were a little crazy |
Sully | to dirty, to taint, to tarnish (you can sully someone’s reputation or your clothes, you can’t besmirch your clothes) |
Gentry | A general term for a class of prosperous families, sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats. |
Expostulate | (v.) toargue with someone and trying to get them to chage their mind using logic; to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning |
Carrion | (n) dead and rotting flesh |
Quintessence | (n) the perfect or most typical example |
Oryniak Hamlet 1-20
August 14, 2019