Julius Caesar Act 2 Vocab

Front 1

taper

Back 1

candle

Front 2

spurn

Back 2

strike out (kick)

Front 3

adder

Back 3

poisonous snake

Front 4

remorse

Back 4

deep, torturing sense of guilt felt over a wrong, self-reproach

Front 5

augmented

Back 5

made greater, enlarged

Front 6

redress

Back 6

to set right, rectify or remedy, often by making compensation for

Front 7

instigations

Back 7

incite to some action, especially to some evil

Front 8

entreated

Back 8

ask earnestly, beg, beseech

Front 9

insurrection

Back 9

rising up against established authority, rebelling, revolting

Front 10

visage

Back 10

the face, especially expression, appearance, aspect

Front 11

affability

Back 11

pleasant and easy to approach and talk to, friendly, gentle and kindly

Front 12

Erebus

Back 12

place of _______ through which the dead must pass (sorry renee i had no clue what her handwriting said)

Front 13

interpose

Back 13

to place or put between, to introduce by way of intervention

Front 14

irrepressible

Back 14

[in-suppressive] cannot be restrained

Front 15

palter

Back 15

waver, shift position

Front 16

gravity

Back 16

graveness, weighty dignity

Front 17

shrewd

Back 17

artful, cunning, wily

Front 18

contriver

Back 18

schemer, construct skillfully or ingeniously, to bring about as by a scheme

Front 19

chide

Back 19

scold, reprove mildly

Front 20

purgers

Back 20

process of ridding a nation or political party of individuals said to be disloyal or undesirable

Front 21

engrafted

Back 21

firmly established

Front 22

prodigies

Back 22

omens

Front 23

augurers

Back 23

Roman religious officials whose function was to foresee the future

Front 24

berated

Back 24

rebuked harshly

Front 25

humor

Back 25

mood

Front 26

bent

Back 26

direction, inclination

Front 27

disclose

Back 27

to bring into view, uncover, reveal, make known

Front 28

constancy

Back 28

self-control

Front 29

exorcist

Back 29

one who banishes an evil spirit

Front 30

mortified

Back 30

deadened

Front 31

portents

Back 31

omens, signs of things to come

Front 32

imminent

Back 32

likely to happen without delay, impending

Front 33

tinctures

Back 33

blood of martyrs, originally a dye

Front 34

relics

Back 34

remains of saints

Front 35

cognizance

Back 35

device identifying nobles of a royal house

Front 36

expounded

Back 36

to set forth point by point, state in detail

Front 37

rendered

Back 37

made [to give, hand over, deliver]

Front 38

emulation

Back 38

reach of envy

Front 39

fray

Back 39

noisy quarrel or fight, brawl