1. austerity: n. condition of lacking pleasure and luxury (Scene 1, line 92) The trip through the Middle Passage for captured Africans was very austere- they were jam packed into barracks with barely any space to breathe, and were never allowed out to use the facilities.
2. beguile: v. to trick (Scene 1, line 245)
Puck is a beguiling fairy who turns Nick Bottom's head into an ass' head in the play.
3. cloister: n. place where members of a religious community live (Scene 1, line 73)
In the movie The Sound of Music, the nuns were safely cloistered behind the convent walls.
4. dote: v. to live with foolish fondness (Scene1, line 236)
Like any doting teenager, i wanted to show off the amazing gift I had been given.
5. feign: v. to pretend (Scene 1, line 32)
Liam feigned a stomach ache to the nurses so that they would call his mom to take him home so that he would not have to take his Spanish test in the last period of the day.
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