Blasphemous | Adj, impiously irreverent: profane |
Insolent | Adj, insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct: overbearing |
Perfidious (perfidy) | Adj, the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal treachery |
Fortitude | Noun, strength of mind that allows a person to encounter or bear pain with adversity or courage |
Chide | Verb, to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
Enmity | Noun, positive active and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
Supplant | Verb, to take the place of and serve as a substitute for a especially by reason of superior excellence or power |
Trifle | Noun, something of little value, substance, or importance |
Credulous | Adj, ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
Nimble | Adj, marked by quick alert clever conception comprehension or resourcefulness |
Sinew | Noun, tendons especially used for chords or threads |
Debauched | Adj, to seduce from chastity |
Brood | Noun, the young of an animal or family |
Jocund | Adj, marked or suggestive of high sprites of lively mirthfulness |
Surfeited | Verb. to feed, supply, or give ti surfeit archaic: to indulge in sanctity in a gratification |
Austere | Adj, stern cold in appearance or manner |
Sanctimonious | Adj, hypocritically pious or devout |
Abstemious | Adj, marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol |
Infirmity | Noun, the condition of being feeble |
Repose | Verb, to lay at rest |
Eaves | Noun, a projecting edge |
Penitent | Adj, feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
Ebb(ing) | Verb, to recede from the flood |
Promonotory | Noun, a promontory piece of land overlooking or projecting into a body of water |
Abjure | Verb, to renounce upon oath |
the tempest vocab words
July 21, 2019