WorksheetsTempest Vocabulary Pt. 1
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the best definition of the word: Usurp
to take over; to seize power
to inherit a throne
an ulcer like sore
to use the last of something
What is a boatswain?
the master of the ship
an advisor
a ship’s petty officer
a type of Shakespeare play
What is verdure?
Green foliage
A type of evening wear
Scarcity
To shake vigorously
What is the best definition of the word: surety?
Surround so as to force to give up
Habitual
Disturb, especially by minor irritations
Something clearly established
What word means, completely lacking nobility in character or purpose?
Prerogative
Cherub
Ignoble
Upbraid
What is the best definition of the word: Mischance?
Foreboding, threatening or evil
An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
A severe interrogation
To live in or occupy
An instrument from which a person is executed by hanging
Tempest
Prostrate
Reprieve
Gallows
What is the best definition of the word: perfidious
evil, fearful, cunning
Tending to betray
To be refined patient
Overly happy or excitable
What is another word for habitual?
Inveterate
Implement
Beseech
Lithe
What is the best definition of the word: beseech?
The quality of being full of energy
Suffer patiently
Ask for or request earnestly
Listen, used mostly in the imperative
Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
Abhor
Wither
Prescience
Mischance
The place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment.
Debased
Sordidness
Squalor
Perdition
What is the best definition of the word: Mar?
To render imperfect
To improve the quality of something
An area of low-lying land
Cause to lose a large amount of water
What is another word for, the power to foresee the future?
Prescience
Clemency
Zenith
Nymph
What is the best meaning of the word: Zenith?
Out of the ordinary
Two items of the same
The point above the observer, directly opposite rock bottom
An ulcer-like sore
Supply with an excess of
Embargo
Incense
Beget
Glut
What is the best definition of the word: allay?
Lessen the intensity of or calm
Indulge in an unrestrained manner
Issue or terminate in a specified way
High pitched cry or noise
Censure severely or angrily
Toil
Hark
Abhor
Chide
What is the best definition of the word: beseech?
The quality of being full of energy
Suffer patiently
Ask for or request earnestly
Listen, used mostly in the imperative
Grant in a condescending manner
Vouchsafe
Perfidious
Inveterate
Mischance
An ulcer-like sore.
Vouchsafe
Canker
Rapt
Whence
What is the best definition of the word: endow?
Grant in a condescending manner
To approach and address someone aggressively
Give qualities or abilities to
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Characterized by violent emotions or behavior
Penitence
Conjecture
Tempestuous
Apotheosis
What is the best definition of the word: Whence?
To send away
From what place, source, or cause
Generate children
The feeling that someone or something is unworthy
A severe interrogation.
Fortitude
Canker
Inquisition
Beseech
What is the best definition of the word: beget?
The consequences or aftereffects of an unpleasant event
Slightly open
Increase the power, status, or wealth of
Generate children
From that fact or reason, or as a result
Precursor
Thus
Beget
Insinuate
What is the best definition of the word: ensue?
Issue or terminate in a specified way
Reach inside a receptacle and and search for something
Tear or be torn violently
Pacify or placate be acceding to their demands
Shackle that can be locked around the wrist.
Manacle
Manifold
Extirpate
Mischance
What is the definition of the word: twain?
Give qualities or abilities to
Decrees in vigor, extent, or power
The cause or intention underlying an action or situation
Two items of the same kind
Feeling great delight.
Rapt
Tantalizing
Emblazoned
Surety
