A Midsummer Night's Dream Vocab (All)

abate

v, to become less intense

amends

n, something done to make up for a fault or mistake

amiable (amity, n)

adj, having a friendly or pleasant manner

audacious

adj, bold

austerity

n, condition of lacking pleasure or luxury

beguile

v, to trick

bequeath

v, to leave to or pass on, as in a will

chide

v, to scold

cloister

n, place where members of a religious community live

derision

n, to scorn

discourse

n, conversation

disparage

v, to belittle or mock

dissemble

v, to pretend

dissension

n, disagreement that leads to discord

dote

v, to love with foolish fondness

dowager

n, a widow with money or property

enmity

n, hostility

entreat

v, to beg

extenuate

v, to cause an offense to seem less serious

feign

v, to pretend

flout

v, to mock

gait

n, manner of walking

idolatry

n, false worship

nuptial

n/adj, wedding

paragon

n, model of perfection

premediated

adj, planned

progeny

n, offspring

promontory

n, peak of land that juts out

rebuke

v, to scold

recompense

n, payment

recreant

n, a coward or villian

reprehend

v, to find fault with

revel

v, enjoying festivities (revelry, n)

satire

n, literary work exposing human vices and shortcomings to ridicule and scorn

shrewish(ness)

adj, (of a woman) aggressively and intellectually assertive

sojourn

n/v, to stay somewhere for a while

solemnity

n, a formal ceremony

sovereignty

n, supreme power or authority

spurn

v, to reject

transfigure

v, to change

wanton

adj, shameless