Taming of the Shrew - Act I

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. adversary
    someone who offers opposition
  4. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  5. amiss
    in an improper or mistaken manner
  6. amorous
    inclined toward or displaying love
  7. aught
    a quantity of no importance
  8. balk
    refuse to proceed or comply
  9. beget
    have children
  10. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  11. beseech
    ask for or request earnestly
  12. brook
    a natural stream of water smaller than a river
  13. chafe
    become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
  14. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
  15. commune
    share or interact intimately with
  16. contrive
    make or work out a plan for; devise
  17. counsel
    something that provides direction or advice
  18. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  19. court
    an assembly to conduct judicial business
  20. daunt
    cause to lose courage
  21. descry
    catch sight of
  22. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  23. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  24. disfigure
    mar or spoil the appearance of
  25. dole
    a share of money or necessities donated by charity
  26. froward
    habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  27. fruitful
    productive or conducive to producing in abundance
  28. grave
    a place for the burial of a corpse
  29. hearken
    listen; used mostly in the imperative
  30. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  31. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
  32. institute
    set up or lay the groundwork for
  33. irksome
    tedious or irritating
  34. jest
    activity characterized by good humor
  35. knave
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  36. largess
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  37. lief
    in a willing manner
  38. mean
    denote or connote
  39. metaphysics
    the philosophical study of being and knowing
  40. mew
    cry like a cat
  41. nought
    a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  42. pate
    liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
  43. patron
    someone who supports or champions something
  44. penance
    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
  45. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
  46. poesy
    literature in metrical form
  47. presume
    take to be the case or to be true
  48. quaff
    swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
  49. renowned
    widely known and esteemed
  50. resolve
    find a solution or answer
  51. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  52. rogue
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  53. satiety
    being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
  54. slack
    not tense or taut
  55. sobriety
    the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
  56. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  57. stripling
    a person who is older than 12 but younger than 20
  58. suffice
    be adequate, either in quality or quantity
  59. suitor
    a man who courts a woman
  60. tarry
    leave slowly and hesitantly
  61. virtuous
    morally excellent
  62. whit
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  63. woo
    seek someone's favor
Created on Thu Oct 14 10:27:47 EDT 2010

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