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20 Cards in this Set
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emulate |
match or surpass
Thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride. |
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heraldy |
codes of chivalry
well ratified by law and heraldry |
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compulsatory |
force
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands |
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harbingers |
forerunners
as harbingers preceding still the fates |
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extort |
ill won
extorted treasure in the womb of earth |
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malicious |
characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm.
and our vain blows malicious mockery |
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auspicious |
conducive to success; favorable.
with an auspicious, and a dropping eye |
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impotent |
unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears |
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obsequious |
appropriate to funeral rites
to do obsequious sorrow. but to perserver |
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truant |
a student who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
against yourself. I know you are no truant
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countenance |
a person's face or facial expression.
a countenance more in sorrow than in anger. |
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tenable |
held fast
let it be tenable in your silence still |
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requite |
repay
i will requite your loves. so, fare you well |
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prodigal |
spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul |
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Calumnious |
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
Virtue itself scapes no calumnious strokes |
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censure |
express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement.
take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement |
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entreatments |
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:
set your entreatments at a higher rate
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canonized |
regard as being above reproach or of great significance.
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death |
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disposition |
a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
To put an antic disposition on |
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ambiguous |
unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.
or such ambiguous giving out, to note |
