ELA 10 - 3 & 4 Fill in the blank

I ran after him but soon realized I was involved in a(n) ______, or preposterous, chase.

farcical

That could help me figure out a way to get us out of this once _____ but now serious situation.

farcical

Shakespeare borrowed from other works and was _____, aptly combining stories from different sources.

adroit

Shakespeare's __________, inventive descriptions make it easy to picture armies proudly displaying their coats of arms.

adroit

The kings disliked long plays, so to _________ any criticism, Shakespeare kept Macbeth short.

allay

The witches' prophecies stimulate, rather than _______, Macbeth's ambitious design to become king.

allay

The next day, I wandered around the gloomy ruins behind the castle and wondered how my family could avoid being _________ into this strange place. Its eerie atmosphere made me thing that we were all in danger of being absorbed by this strange community.

assimilated

If King James I attended a play, it was a major event that would have been _________ throughout England.

blazoned

Armies proudly display their _____________, or coat of arms.

blazons

In the play, Macbeth takes on some of the dark traits associated with the historical Donwald. Like Donwald, Macbeth pretends to be more courageous than he actually is; he uses ______ to hide his fears.

bravado

Shakespeare took the idea of the murder of Duncan from a historical account of the murder of King Duff by Donwald, an ambitious, angry, and _______ subject.

choleric

I wanted to be completely aware, fully ______ of our circumstances.

cognizant

We did not see anyone else for the next 24 hours, but I was ______ of presences and equally conscious that people were watching us.

cognizant

Scholars often hold ________ to discuss Shakespeare's writing. Some of these meetings are quite large.

colloquies

Shakespeare may have held _______ with people who had been sent from England.

colloquies

Apparently the king, a ______ himself, did not object to plays about absolute monarchs whose rage leads them to commit murder.

despot

Not, evidently was the king depressed by the somber ______ played after death scenes.

dirges

Now my father had become ___, rambling in a disconnected way about how we had found ourselves here.

discursive

Eric was bored and complained of ________, so I told him to go outside.

ennui

The King knew many people who had been _________ from England for political reasons.

expatriated

Shakespeare's witches _______ an interest in helping people, but actually they are experts at deceiving those to whom they reveal their prophecies.

feign

It was lucky, or ______, that I happened to be outside just when Eric vanished into the woods.

fortuitous

You may think this merely _________, but I had goosebumps over every inch of my body.

hyperbole

If I were all-knowing, I could not be fooled by anyone, whether openly identified or __________.

incognito

The longer we stayed, the more convinced I was that Mr. Brice was __________, masquerading as someone else.

incognito

I was afraid that my father had fallen under the hypnotic spell, or _________, of Mr. Brice.

mesmerism

I wished I were __________, able to know not only what was happening to Eric but to everyone else as well.

omniscient