Tempest Contemporary Master Set Act I
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MsPecor Plus on December 5, 2011
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77 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 mariner | sailor |
| mar | damage |
| labour | work |
| mischance | bad luck |
| aboard | on the ship |
| gallows | a platform where executions are performed by hanging |
| bawling | shouting |
| blasphemous | cursing--especially in a way that shows disrespect for God or religion |
| cur | worthless dog |
| hanged | executed using a method that involved having a rope tied around one's neck and then being suspended from the rope in such a manner that one was strangled by one's own body weight |
| farewell | goodbye |
| barren | useless for growing food |
| insolent | disrespectful |
| auspicious | lucky |
| zenith | highest point |
| garment | piece of clothing |
| perish | die |
| spectacle | extraordinary or unusual thing to see |
| perfidious | tending to betray; intentionally betraying |
| ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables one to endure bad things with courage |
| extirpate | to remove or destroy completely, like a plant pulled out by the roots |
| bootless | of no benefit; useless |
| woe | great sadness or distress |
| vessel | ship |
| rapt | lost in deep thought or emotion |
| aught | anything |
| nought or naught | nothing |
| allay | calm |
| precursor | something that comes before something else |
| momentary | only lasting a short time |
| beseige | attack |
| brine | salt water |
| nigh | near |
| blemish | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something |
| charm | magic spell |
| dispersed | scattered |
| toil | hard work |
| malignant | very bad |
| recount | tell;repeat |
| banish | expel from a community or group; drive away |
| hag | an ugly, frightening-looking old woman |
| potent | powerful |
| cloven | split |
| whelp | baby animal; bad child |
| discharge | release from service or duty |
| tempest | a violent storm |
| entrails | guts; insides |
| gape | be wide open |
| din | noise |
| vile | disgusting;evil |
| dew | the moisture from the air that collects in small drops on cool surfaces during the night |
| malice | desire to harm others; evil |
| abide | live |
| fen | low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh |
| fertile | word describing a piece of land where plants that are useful to humans grow easily |
| endowed | gave |
| plague | terrible disease |
| brutish | like an animal; not as good as a human |
| gabble | to speak nonesense words; jabber |
| rack | torture |
| unwholesome | not healthy |
| unwonted | out of the ordinary; unusual |
| lest | for fear that |
| coral | the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry |
| transformation | a significant or extreme change |
| chide | scold; chew out |
| vigour | strength |
| subdued | overpowered |
| beseech | beg |
| air | tune |
| ditty | song |
| nymph | one of a numerous class of lesser goddesses of mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior god or goddess |
| knell | the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral |
| fathom | a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth |
| usurp | to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right |
| imposter | a person who pretends to be someone else in order to cheat or get over some |
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