Caesar Act II Vocab Quiz - English I

On March 26, 2025

Taper

candle

adder

Snake (venomous)

wary

showing caution

disjoins

separate

Remorse

compassion - guilt over a wrongdoing

Extremity

extreme degree or nature of something

Flint

Stone/hard rock used to light a fire

Exhalations

breaths

Redress

to set right/remedy

Phantasma

apparition, spectre, phantom

Insurrection

An action against civil authority or established government

Visage

face or appearance of a person or animal

Sufferance

patient endurance, pain and misery

Valor

courage

Carrions

Dead, putrefying flesh

Enterprise

a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated or risky

Shrewd

having or showing sharp powers of judgment; astute; given to wily or artful ways

Contrive

Devise or plan / to bring about from strategy

(Antony?)

Wrath

Vengeful anger

Hew

to cut down by an ax or sharp instrument

Engrafted

to join or fasten as if by grafting (to implant)

Augurer

Priest who could determine if a proposed undertaking was approved by the gods

Disperse

to break up or scatter

Wafture

wavelike motion

Vile

morally despicable; foul

Contagion

Disease

Exploit

deed, act

Construe

To understand or explain the sense or intention of usually in a particular way or with respect to a given set of circumstances

Appertain

To belong or to be connected as a rightful part or attribute - pertain

Harlot

Disparaging term for a woman who engages in sex acts