"Toil and Trouble" - Key Vocabulary - Scenes 1-3
Able to correctly predict what will happen in the future.
What is prophetic?
Feeling overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
What is ecstatic?
Extreme anger, often accompanied by a desire to seek vengeance.
What is wrath?
A period of temporary economic decline, generally identified by a fall in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for two consecutive quarters.
What is a recession?
To make an action or process happen more quickly or be accomplished more efficiently.
What is to expedite?
Demonstrating an ability to understand, imagine, or share how someone else feels.
What is empathetic?
Involving a betrayal of trust. Characterized by behavior that deceives or is disloyal to someone who trusts you.
What is treacherous?
Characterized by a disposition or intention to do good. Well-intentioned or motivated by a sense of sympathy, generosity, or kindness.
What is benevolent?
Imagined or suggested but not necessarily real or true. Based on an idea that one would then test through experimentation.
What is hypothetical?
Biologically, to develop in a mother's womb over time, prior to birth. May also be used to describe the gradual development of an idea or in the mind over a period of time.
What is gestate?
Causing sudden and great destruction.
What is catastrophic?
Showing great attention to small details; careful and precise
What is meticulous?
Excessive pride or self-confidence.
What is hubris?
To work together in secret towards an illegal or deceitful purpose.
What is collude?
To completely defeat or overpower.
What is vanquish?
A remark or statement that intends to provide a moral truth but has become trite or meaningless because of overuse.
What is a platitude?
A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government by a small group of people or individual.
What is a coup d'etat?
A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature and appreciation of art and beauty.
What is aesthetics?
A group of three people who share power.
What is a triumverate?