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Act 3/4 vocab study guide
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- 1astonishedTo fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze.
- 2augera bit, as for a brace
- 3contemptuousShowing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful
- 4ContentiousTending to argument or strife; quarrelsome
- 5daftSenseless, stupid, foolish
- 6depositionThe giving of testimony under oath
- 7EffronteryShameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity
- 8guileCrafty or artful deception
- 9harlotA prostitute; whore
- 10ImperceptibleVery slight, gradual, or subtle
- 11Ipso FactoBy the fact itself
- 12plaintiffA person who brings a suit in court.
- 13pretenseA false show of something
- 14probityIntegrity and uprightness; honesty
- 15testamentA will, especially one that relates to the disposition of one’s personal property.
- 16revelationThe act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure
- 17undermineTo attack by indirect, secret, or underhanded means
- 18vestryA room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- 19moodthe emotional feeling or atmosphere that a text produces in a reader.
- 20toneattitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
- 21foreshadowingclues or hints about what is to come
- 22dramatic ironyoccurs when the audience knows something that some characters in a narrative do not
- 23foila character who contrasts with another character to highlight particular qualities of the other character
- 24protagonistsmain character
- 25antagonistsmain opposition to main character’s goal
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