AP Literature Hamlet Vocabulary 21-40

Question 1

Person’s face or facial expression

Answer 1

Countenance

Question 2

Having a streak of grey hair

Answer 2

Grizzled

Question 3

Able to be well-kept or guarded against attack or objection

Answer 3

Tenable

Question 4

To go on board a ship or to take or put on board

Answer 4

Embarked

Question 5

Growing, increasing, developing

Answer 5

Crescent

Question 6

To sully or soil; to harm a reputation of something

Answer 6

Besmirch

Question 7

Craft, deceit, faultless

Answer 7

Cautel

Question 8

Restrict something within limits

Answer 8

Circumscribed

Question 9

Spending money or resources recklessly

Answer 9

Prodigal

Question 10

Slanderous or defamatory

Answer 10

Calumnious

Question 11

Blighting influence

Answer 11

Blastment

Question 12

Free man; one who is thinking freely

Answer 12

Libertine

Question 13

Press or urge with persistent request

Answer 13

Importuned

Question 14

Speak badly of or tell lies; ding their reputation

Answer 14

Traduced

Question 15

Porpentine

Answer 15

Porcupine

Question 16

Rebellious; sexually immodest or promiscuous

Answer 16

Wanton

Question 17

Lacking control of sexual indulgence

Answer 17

Incontinency

Question 18

Previously named

Answer 18

Prenominate

Question 19

Plead, argue at length

Answer 19

Expostulate

Question 20

Concise and exact use of words in speech and writing

Answer 20

Brevity