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Tempest Vocabulary Pt. 1

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the best definition of the word: Usurp

a)

to take over; to seize power

b)

to inherit a throne

c)

an ulcer like sore

d)

to use the last of something

2.

What is a boatswain?

a)

the master of the ship

b)

an advisor

c)

a ship’s petty officer

d)

a type of Shakespeare play

3.

What is verdure?

a)

Green foliage

b)

A type of evening wear

c)

Scarcity

d)

To shake vigorously

4.

What is the best definition of the word: surety?

a)

Surround so as to force to give up

b)

Habitual

c)

Disturb, especially by minor irritations

d)

Something clearly established

5.

What word means, completely lacking nobility in character or purpose?

a)

Prerogative

b)

Cherub

c)

Ignoble

d)

Upbraid

6.

What is the best definition of the word: Mischance?

a)

Foreboding, threatening or evil

b)

An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate

c)

A severe interrogation

d)

To live in or occupy

7.

An instrument from which a person is executed by hanging

a)

Tempest

b)

Prostrate

c)

Reprieve

d)

Gallows

8.

What is the best definition of the word: perfidious

a)

evil, fearful, cunning

b)

Tending to betray

c)

To be refined patient

d)

Overly happy or excitable

9.

What is another word for habitual?

a)

Inveterate

b)

Implement

c)

Beseech

d)

Lithe

10.

What is the best definition of the word: beseech?

a)

The quality of being full of energy

b)

Suffer patiently

c)

Ask for or request earnestly

d)

Listen, used mostly in the imperative

11.

Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

a)

Abhor

b)

Wither

c)

Prescience

d)

Mischance

12.

The place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment.

a)

Debased

b)

Sordidness

c)

Squalor

d)

Perdition

13.

What is the best definition of the word: Mar?

a)

To render imperfect

b)

To improve the quality of something

c)

An area of low-lying land

d)

Cause to lose a large amount of water

14.

What is another word for, the power to foresee the future?

a)

Prescience

b)

Clemency

c)

Zenith

d)

Nymph

15.

What is the best meaning of the word: Zenith?

a)

Out of the ordinary

b)

Two items of the same

c)

The point above the observer, directly opposite rock bottom

d)

An ulcer-like sore

16.

Supply with an excess of

a)

Embargo

b)

Incense

c)

Beget

d)

Glut

17.

What is the best definition of the word: allay?

a)

Lessen the intensity of or calm

b)

Indulge in an unrestrained manner

c)

Issue or terminate in a specified way

d)

High pitched cry or noise

18.

Censure severely or angrily

a)

Toil

b)

Hark

c)

Abhor

d)

Chide

19.

What is the best definition of the word: beseech?

a)

The quality of being full of energy

b)

Suffer patiently

c)

Ask for or request earnestly

d)

Listen, used mostly in the imperative

20.

Grant in a condescending manner

a)

Vouchsafe

b)

Perfidious

c)

Inveterate

d)

Mischance

21.

An ulcer-like sore.

a)

Vouchsafe

b)

Canker

c)

Rapt

d)

Whence

22.

What is the best definition of the word: endow?

a)

Grant in a condescending manner

b)

To approach and address someone aggressively

c)

Give qualities or abilities to

d)

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots

23.

Characterized by violent emotions or behavior

a)

Penitence

b)

Conjecture

c)

Tempestuous

d)

Apotheosis

24.

What is the best definition of the word: Whence?

a)

To send away

b)

From what place, source, or cause

c)

Generate children

d)

The feeling that someone or something is unworthy

25.

A severe interrogation.

a)

Fortitude

b)

Canker

c)

Inquisition

d)

Beseech

26.

What is the best definition of the word: beget?

a)

The consequences or aftereffects of an unpleasant event

b)

Slightly open

c)

Increase the power, status, or wealth of

d)

Generate children

27.

From that fact or reason, or as a result

a)

Precursor

b)

Thus

c)

Beget

d)

Insinuate

28.

What is the best definition of the word: ensue?

a)

Issue or terminate in a specified way

b)

Reach inside a receptacle and and search for something

c)

Tear or be torn violently

d)

Pacify or placate be acceding to their demands

29.

Shackle that can be locked around the wrist.

a)

Manacle

b)

Manifold

c)

Extirpate

d)

Mischance

30.

What is the definition of the word: twain?

a)

Give qualities or abilities to

b)

Decrees in vigor, extent, or power

c)

The cause or intention underlying an action or situation

d)

Two items of the same kind

31.

Feeling great delight.

a)

Rapt

b)

Tantalizing

c)

Emblazoned

d)

Surety