The Taming of the Shrew:Vocabulary List

Abate(v)
abject (adj)
abjured (v)
access(n)
Accoutrements (n)
acquaint (v)
adder (n)
ado (n)
Adversary (n)
affable (adj)
alighted (v)
allots (v)
Alms (n)
amid (prep)
amiss (adj)
amorous (adj)
Apparel (n)
appurtenances (n)
aptly (adv)
array (n)
Askance (adv)
assurance (n)
austerity (n)
balk (v)
Banishment (n)
base (adj)
bashful (adj)
bauble (n)
Bedazzle (v)
beget (v)
beguile (v)
bereft (adj)
Beseech (v)
bestow (v)
bestrewed (v)
bleared (v)
Bodes (v)
bonny (adj)
brawling (v)
breech (v)
Broached (v)
brooked (v)
carousing (v)
chide (v)
Choleric (adj)
clamor (v)
cloak (n)
commend (v)
Commodity (n)
commune (v)
conferring (v)
confound (v)
Consolation (n)
continency (n)
conveyed (v)
counsel (v)
Countenance (n)
court (v)
covenants (n)
coverlet (n)
Credulous (adj)
crupper (n)
cuff (n)
cur (n)
Dally (v)
daunt (v)
deceased (v)
deign (v)
Deluding (v)
detained (v)
digress (v)
diligence (n)
Din (n)
discreetly (adv)
disdain (v)
dissemble (v)
Doublet (n)
dower (v)
dowry (n)
dulcet (n)
Effectual (adj)
eloquence (n)
embossed (v)
endured (v)
Enforce (v)
esteem (v)
ewer (n)
extempore (adj)
Famish (v)
feat (n)
flouts (v)
forthcoming (adj)
Frivolous (adj)
gale (n)
gallant (adj)
galled (v)
Girth (n)
habiliments (n)
haggard (adj)
haste (n)
Hearken (v)
idle (adj)
importune (v)
inapt (adj)
Incur (v)
indifferently (adv)
inferior (adj)
infused (v)
Insolence (n)
intolerable (adj)
irksome (adj)
jest (v)
Kindred (adj)
lackey (n)
loathsome (adj)
lunacy (n)
Maimed (v)
malady (n)
mar (v)
melancholy (adj)
Mew (v)
mirth (n)
modesty (n)
naught (n)
Nightingale (n)
notorious (adj)
novices (n)
obeisance (n)
Oblivion (n)
paltry (n)
parle (v)
pedant (n)
Peddler (n)
peremptory (n)
peril (n)
perpetually (adv)
Perused (v)
pillory (n)
pine (v)
pith (n)
Pithy (adj)
pittance (n)
ply (v)
poesy (n)
Prating (v)
procured (v)
prodigy (n)
quarrelsome (adj)
Quench (v)
raiment (n)
renowned (v)
repast (n)
Rsolution (n)
resolve (v)
revel (v)
reverence (n)
Rhetoric (n)
rivals (n)
rudiments (n)
satiety (n)
Scarlet (n)
scholar (n)
scorn (v)
shrewd (adj)
Shun (v)
sober (adj)
spruce (v)
strive (v)
Submissive (adj)
subscribe (v)
suffice (v)
suitor (n)
Supremacy (n)
surly (adj)
tarry (v)
temperate (adj)
tinker (n)
transmutation (n)
tripe (n)
unfeigned (v)
usurp (v)
uttermost (adj)
vile (adj)
virtuous (adj)
volubility (n)
waning (v)
withered (v)
withholds (v)
woe (n)
woo (v)


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