Cyrano de Bergerac Vocabulary

Act 1

Affable (adj) warm and friendly

Droll (adj) humorous; clownish

Dubious (adj) Doubtful, uncertain, suspicious

Enmity (n.) Hatred, hostility

Obsequious (adj.) fawning; servile

Act 2

Doggerel (n.) trivial or inferior poetry

Doublet (n.) Short jacket

Retinue (n.) group of followers, entourage

Whelp (n.) young animal

Act 3

Quintessence (n.) purest example of something

Augment (v.) to add to; to increase

Desolate (adj.) deserted; abandoned

Eloquence (n.) expressive, effective language

Heresy (n.) opinion contrary to generally accepted beliefs

Act 4

Abject (adj.) wretched; pathetic; dismal

Insolence (n.) rudeness; disrespect

Vacuous (adj.) Empty; blank; vacant; hollow

Act 5

Buffoon (n.) clown; jokester

Obstinate (adj.) stubborn; inflexible

Omniscient (adj.) all-knowing; all-seeing

Stoic (adj.) calm; unexcitable

Defiled (adj.) polluted; dirtied