Othello Vocab Quiz 24-46

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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

Easy, 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

Hideous

Very ugly, offensive, shocking

Homage

A reverential regard; respect shown by external action

Imperious

Extremely overbearing

Insolence

Insulting or contemptuous behavior

Laconic

Using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude

Lecher

One who indulges excessively in sexual activity or in lasciviousness

Lethargic

Sluggish, languid

Malice

Desire to harm others

Malicious

Motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm

Malign

To utter injuriously misleading reports about

Mitigate

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

Mutinous

Rebellious, unruly

Obscure

Difficult to see, vague