Period One Vocab Partisan n a weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft one who exhibits extreme or blind allegiance to a group Ex Clubs bills and partisans Strike Beat them down ID: 770714
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Period One Vocab
Partisan : (n) a weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft; one who exhibits extreme or blind allegiance to a group. Ex: “Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!”
Pernicious (adj.): very destructive or harmful, deadly, baneful, detrimental Ex: “What ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!”
COvert ( adj ) secret, concealed, stealthy (n) a thicket in which game (hunted animals) can hide Ex: “Toward him I made; but he was ware of me And stole into the covert of the wood”
Portent (n) a sign or forewarning; omen, warning ( adj ) momentous, having great significance Ex: “Black and portentous must this humor prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove”
Galling/Gall Galling: ( adj ) very irritating, vexing, bitter Gall: (n) bile, an irritant, something bitter “What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet”
Accord/According Accord: (n) Agreement, state of harmony, concur According ( adj ): Harmonious, agreeable “An she agree, within her scope of choice, Lies my consent and fair according voice.”
Wanton ( adj ) immoral or (n) someone who is immoral “Let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels”
Virtuous ( adj ) having excellent morals, righteous, ethical, noble “He bears him like a portly gentleman And to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well- govern’d youth”
Disparage/Disparagement Disparage: (v) to degrade, speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner, to belittle Disparagement: (n) the act of disparaging, something that casts a bad light “I would not for the wealth of all this town Here in my house do him some disparagement”
Profane (v) showing contempt toward sacred things; to violate, desecrate, or defame “If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”
Swashing Hard downward strokes (usually using a sword)
Prodigious Monstrous, foretelling misfortune
Tetchy Bad tempered and irritable
Esteem Respect and admiration
Fleer To mock
Ambuscadoes Ambushes
Valiant Possessing or showing courage or determination
Fortnight Period of two weeks
Augmenting Increasing or enlarging
Importuned Questioned deeply