Unit 2: Novel Study: Richard III, Acts 1–2

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  1. amorous
    expressive of or exciting love or romance
  2. treacherous
    dangerously unstable and unpredictable
  3. beseech
    ask for or request earnestly
  4. obsequious
    attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
  5. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  6. dissentious
    dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
  7. lewd
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  8. incense
    make furious
  9. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  10. insinuate
    suggest in an indirect or covert way; give to understand
  11. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  12. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  13. inviolable
    incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
  14. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  15. surmise
    a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
  16. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  17. preposterous
    inviting ridicule
Created on Mon Dec 14 17:26:42 EST 2020 (updated Thu Dec 17 16:42:40 EST 2020)

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