Act IV & V Vocabulary Quiz

harp (v)

to give voice to; dwell on

potent (adj)

powerful'; influential

impress (v)

force into military action

pernicious (adj)

harmful; destructive; lethal

firstling (n)

the first of a kind; first-born child

school (v)

to inform or teach

desolate (adj)

isolated or lonely

intemperance (n)

excessive indulgence of an appetite

avarice (n)

insatiable greed for riches

scruples (n)

tiny parts; doubts; difficulty

perturbation (n)

mental agitation

charge (v)

to suffuse with emotion

mortify (adj)

dead to the world; destroyed

gentry (n)

rank given at birth; nobility

distempered (adj)

disturbed; deranged

upbraid (v)

to bring forth as basis for discipline

skirr (v)

to fly or whir

raze (v)

to completely destroy

pristine (adj)

uncontaminated or pure

treatise (n)

tale; talk

per

through (L)

turb

stir (L)

-tion

act or state (L)

mort

death (L)

-fy

make (L)

dis

away or not (L)

temper

“to mix” (O.E.) or “to keep within limits” (L)

-tine

point (O.E.)

-ize (or ise)

to make, or quality, state, or function (Grk)