3rd Quarter Vocabulary

• afoot


  developing or in the process of happening
• assail


  violently assault
• auspicious


  favorable
• avouch


  affirmation
• baseness


  the quality of lacking higher values
• beshrew


  curse
• besmirch


  soil; tarnish
• bestial


  brutal without reason; having the attributes of a savage
• blastments


  injury by a destructive cause
• brazen


  shameless; insolent; disrespectful
• cautel


  deceit; falseness
• calumnious


  slanderous; defamatory
• clemency


  leniency
• consonancy


  agreement or harmony
• cote


  surpass
• dexterity


  skillful and active
• discord


  a lack of agreement; strife; tension
• dole


  sorrow
• enmity


  a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will
• entreaty


  a plea; an earnest request
• equivocation


  ambiguousness; deliberate evasiveness in wording
• fardels


  burdens
• felicity


  happiness or delight
• fie


  an interjection used to express disgust or disapproval
• forbear


  refrain
• galled


  annoyed; irritated
• gratis


  free
• harbinger


  foreshadows a future event; an omen
• hies


  goes quickly; hastens
• homage


  a reverential regard; respect shown by external action
• importing


  indicating or signifying
• incorporeal


  having no material or tangible form
• ingenious


  cleverness; inventiveness; resourcefulness
• interred


  deposited a dead body into a grave
• jocund


  cheerful; merry; blithe
• martial


  of, related to, or suggesting of war
• mote


  speck
• mutine


  rebel (like mutiny)
• obstinate


  unyielding regardless of reason or logic
• ostentation


  excessive display