Question

In this excerpt from Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom, choose the correct meaning for each underlined word. They rush from beds with giddy (     ) heads, and to their windows run, Viewing this light, which shines more bright than doth (     ) the noon-day sun Straightway appears (they see’t with tears) the Son of God most dread; Who with His train comes on amain (       ) to judge both quick and dead.


giddy:(dizzy,swollen,aching)                                                          doth:(has,does,goes)                                                   amain:(late,carefully,quickly)

Answer 1

Giddy means dizzy in this excerpt as the characters rushed from bed to the windows.
Doth means does in this excerpt showing how the light they were seeing appear.
Amain means quickly as a train.