Othello vocabulary # 1-69 : English

Advocacy

support of an idea or cause

Affinity

a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship

Agile

the ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace

Alacrity

prompt or cheerful response

Amiable

friendly, sociable

Baseness

the quality of lacking higher values

Beguile

to deceive, to mislead, and to persuade with charm

Bestial

brutal without reason, having the attributes of a savage

Bestow

to grant or to give

Boisterous

rowdy, rough, and stormy

Bombastic

using inflated language, pompous

Candid

blunt, sincere honesty

Carnal

marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions/relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities.

Castigate

to punish or to subdue by punishment; to criticize with drastic severity

Circumspect

careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent

Consecrate

to dedicate or to declare sacred

Cynical

given to sneering or sarcasm, exhibiting mocking disbelief

Defunct

no longer existing, dead

Desolate

deserted, without inhabitants, barren

Dilatory

delaying, slow to act

Discern

to differentiate between two or more things

Discord

lack of agreement, tension, and strife

Discretion

Ability to act on one's own power or individual decision

Edifying

instructing and improving spiritually or morally

Enmesh

to entangle

Entreaty

a plea, an earnest request

Epithet

a term or phrase describing or characterizing

Facile

easily achieved with little difficulty

Forbearance

patience, lenience

Fulsome

excess to the point of disgust, extreme lavishness

Garner

to gather together, to store up

Gravity

seriousness, importance

Guileless

without deceit, innocent

Hideous

very ugly, offensive, shocking

Homage

respect shown by external actions

Imperious

extremely overbearing

Insolence

insulting or contemptuous behavior

Laconic

using a minimum amount of words, concise to the point of seeming rude

Lecher

one who indulges excessively in sexual activity

Lethargic

Sluggish, languid

Malice

desire to harm others

Malicious

motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm

Malign

to utter misleading reports about something or someone

Mitigate

to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe

Mutinous

Rebellious unruly

Obscure

difficult to see, vague

Odious

deserving hate or contempt

Palpable

tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable

Paradoxical

something that appears falss or contradictory but is actually correct

Paragon

a model of exellence or perfection

Peevish

easily irritated

Penitent

showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing

Perdition

eternal damnation, utter ruin

Pernicious

very destructive or harmful, deadly

Profane

showing contempt towards sacred things

propriety

correct conduct

Ruffianism

rowdy or tough behavior

Ruminate

to consider for a long time at a slow pace, to ponder

sated

satisfied fully, indulged to excess

sordid

filthy, foul

subjugated

to bring under one's control

surfeited

fed or supplied to excess

traducer

one who slanders or speaks falsely about someone

usurp

to take possession or authority over something without right

vehement

forcefully expressing emotion or conviction

verve

energy or enthusiasm

virtuoso

one skilled in fine arts as an accomplishment musician, savant

wanton

evil

warranted

justified