Midsummer nights vocab 2

amity

n. Friendship and peaceful harmony; goodwill; camaraderie

audacious

adj. Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; daring; fearless

beseech

v. To ask someone urgently and fervently to do something; implore; beg; plead

cloister

n. A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral; walkway; arcade; gallery

disdainful

adj. Showing contempt or lack of respect; scornful; contemptuous

entreat

v. To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something; implore; beseech

fawn

v. To give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection; flatter; grovel

gambol

v. To run or jump about playfully; frolic; skip; romp

hallowed

adj. Made holy; consecrated; sacred; revered

idolatry

n. Extreme adoration, love, or reverence for something or someone; worship; veneration

jollity

n. Lively and cheerful activity or celebration; merriment; festivity

knavery

n. Dishonest or unscrupulous behavior; trickery; deceit

languish

v. To lose or lack vitality, grow weak or feeble; weaken; deteriorate; wilt

mirth

n. Amusement, especially expressed as laughter; joy; cheerfulness

obsequious

adj. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree; servile; sycophantic

pernicious

adj. Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way; harmful; damaging; destructive

quell

v. To put an end to, typically by force; suppress; subdue; extinguish

recompense

v. To make amends to someone for loss or harm suffered

recompense

n. compensate; remunerate; compensation; reparation

seethe

v. To be filled with intense but unexpressed anger; boil; rage; fume

tarry

v. To stay longer than intended; linger; delay; dawdle