The Tempest Quiz Vocab

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penitent

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feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.

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tempestuous

Back 2

violent, stormy.

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blasphemous

Back 3

uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.

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insolent

Back 4

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.

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warranted

Back 5

authorization, sanction, or justification.

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perdition

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a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation

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virtue

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moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

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perfidious

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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.

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reputable

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held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization

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heed

Back 10

to give attention; have regard.

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homage

Back 11

respect or reverence paid or rendered

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ignoble

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of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base

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inveterate

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settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like

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impertinent

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insolently rude; uncivil: a brash, impertinent youth.

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prescience

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knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge;

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cherubim

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a beautiful or innocent person, esp. a child.

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divination

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the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.

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auspicious

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favorable

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zenith

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a highest point or state; culmination.

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vexed

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to irritate; annoy; provoke

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malign

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to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander;

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diligent

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constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything: a diligent student.

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vouchsafe

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to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.

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potent

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producing powerful physical or chemical effects: a potent drug.

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unmitigated

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not mitigated; not softened or lessened: unmitigated suffering.

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knotty

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involved, intricate, or difficult: a knotty problem.

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quaint

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strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way: a quaint sense of humor.

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endow

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to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
2. to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality

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advocacy/advocaate

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the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.

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temperance

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moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.

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paragon

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a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence

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enmity

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absolute hatred

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contentious

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tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew

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loathe

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to detest

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mettle

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courage or spirit

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firebrand

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a person who stirs up trouble

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odious

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deserving hate or contempt

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slothful

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lazy, indolent

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upbraid

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to scold harshly, to reproach

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trifle

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not significant, frivolous

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celestial

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pertaining to the sky or heavens