ENG 1 Vocab #7

1. Beseech  (v)  - ask for or request earnestly

2. Bode (v) - indicate by signs

3. Chaste (adj) - morally pure

4. Chide (v) - scold or reprimand severely or angrily

5. Countervail (v) - oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions

6. Discreet (adj) - marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint

7. Dote (v) - shower with love; show excessive affection for

8. Enmity (n) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

9. Entreat (v)  - ask for or request earnestly

10. Gall (n) - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

11. Impute (v) - attribute or credit to

Invocation (n) - the act of appealing for help

13. Languish (v)-  lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

14. Lamentable (adj) - bad; unfortunate

15. Mutiny (n) - open rebellion against constituted authority

16. Pernicious (adj) -  exceedingly harmful

17. Portentous (adj) - ominously prophetic

18. Rancor (n)-  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

19. Repose (n) - freedom from activity

20. Revel (n)- unrestrained merrymaking

21. Sallow (adj) - unhealthy looking

22. Semblance (n) - the outward or apparent appearance or form of something