Perverse ( page 272 ).
Questions.
1. What is the etymological meaning of perverse? What does it signify in common use? 2. What does petulant signify? wayward?
Examples.
And you, my lords—methinks you do not well,
To bear with their —— objections.
Whining, purblind, —— boy!
Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men
When, for so slight and frivolous a cause,
Such —— emulations shall arise.