Taming of the Shrew - Act 1.1

Elizabeth S. (United States of America)
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  1. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  2. acquaintance
    personal knowledge or information about someone or something
  3. balk
    refuse to proceed or comply
  4. beget
    have children
  5. brook
    a natural stream of water smaller than a river
  6. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
  7. commune
    share or interact intimately with
  8. counsel
    something that provides direction or advice
  9. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  10. court
    an assembly to conduct judicial business
  11. descry
    catch sight of
  12. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  13. dole
    a share of money or necessities donated by charity
  14. fruitful
    productive or conducive to producing in abundance
  15. grave
    a place for the burial of a corpse
  16. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  17. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
  18. institute
    set up or lay the groundwork for
  19. jest
    activity characterized by good humor
  20. lief
    in a willing manner
  21. mean
    denote or connote
  22. metaphysics
    the philosophical study of being and knowing
  23. mew
    cry like a cat
  24. nought
    a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  25. penance
    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
  26. poesy
    literature in metrical form
  27. renowned
    widely known and esteemed
  28. resolve
    find a solution or answer
  29. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  30. rogue
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  31. satiety
    being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
  32. sobriety
    the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
  33. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  34. suffice
    be adequate, either in quality or quantity
  35. virtuous
    morally excellent
  36. whit
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  37. woo
    seek someone's favor
Created on Wed Oct 13 16:34:55 EDT 2010 (updated Wed Oct 13 20:03:22 EDT 2010)

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