allay | to lighten, relieve, dispel, diminish, calm, pacify, alleviate |
prerogative | exclusive or special right or privilege |
inveterate | firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted |
extirpate | to root out, destroy totally, annihilate, exterminate, eradicate |
fortitude | strength or courage in enduring pain or misfortune |
prescience | knowledge of events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight |
zenith | point in the sky directly overhead; highest point; peak; climax; summit; apex |
auspicious | favorable; promising a good outcome; propitious |
importune | to ask, urge, or beg persistently; to repeatedly and insistently entreat |
supplant | to take the place of (especially by force or scheming); to replace or displace |
celestial | heavenly |
credulous | too willing to believe; easily convinced; gullible |
perfidious | betraying trust; faithless; treacherous |
debauch | to lead astray into bad or evil ways; to corrupt; to seduce |
indignity | humiliating treatment, offense, insult, or injury |
jocund | merry, cheerful, jolly, jovial |
meander | to follow a winding course; to wander idly or aimlessly |
travail | strenuous burdensome toil; anguish, agony, tribulation |
vigilance | alert watchfulness, especially against trouble or danger; wariness |
muse | (noun) a source of inspiration; (verb) to think deeply, meditate, ponder |
austere | severe; strict; very plain |
abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating or drinking; temperate |
abate | to reduce; to diminish |
ardor | warmth of feeling; passion; fervor; zeal |
humane | kind; sympathetic; compassionate; merciful; benevolent |
penitent | feeling sorry and willing to atone or make up for sin or wrongdoing; contrite |
potent | powerful or effective |
abjure | to solemnly give up, renounce, or repudiate |
remorse | bitter and painful sense of guilt |
chastise | to punish |
usurp | to appropriate; to take over; to seize control over |
tempest | storm |
temporal | secular; worldly; not spiritual |
sea change | transformation; reversal; shift of opinion or heart |
nonpareil | (noun) paragon; a person or thing that has no equal; (adj.) without equal |
Shakespeare: The Tempest Vocabulary
July 26, 2019