Much Ado About Nothing Vocab 2

Lament

To mourn for a person’s lost.

Enigmatic

Difficult to understand.

Penance

Voluntarily punishing oneself after doing wrong as an atonement.

Epithet

A phrase describing a characteristic of a person/thing.

Solace

Comfort during a time of distress.

Sumptuous

Expensive looking.

Defile

Ruining a good or clean thing.

Extenuate

To make something offensive seem like not a big deal.

Qualm

An uneasy feeling.

Entreat

To ask something earnestly or anxiously for someone to do something.

Amicable

Very friendly.

Unmitigated

Absolute and unqualified.

Rancor

Longstanding bitterness or resentfulness.

Recompense

A compensation for someone who had lost something.

Reproach

To address someone or something with a disapproving attitude.

Impediment

Something that prevents something from doing something.

Vanquish

To defeat thoroughly.

Appertain

To relate to or to concern.

Ensue

Happened after something as a result.

Impious

Not showing respect, usually to God in context.