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Glossing (basic) Flashcards

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1.1

‘bloods’

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  • dispositions, moods affecting physiological and psychological states
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‘his like’

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  • one who is his equal
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‘sur-addition’

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  • additional name/ title given for commendatory service

as in Coriolanus after Caius Marcius

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‘swathing clothes’

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  • cloths used to wrap and swaddle an infant
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1.1

‘marry’

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  • a mild oath invoking the Virgin Mary

- reduction of ‘by the virgin mary’

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‘dissembling courtesy’

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  • deceptively polite behaviour
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‘fine’

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  • subtly, with nicety
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1.1

‘tickle’

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  • flatter
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1.1

‘cere up’

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  • shroud by wrapping a corpse in a cere-cloth (a waxed winding sheet)
  • shut up in a coffin
  • ie. Posthumus prefers to die rather than embrace a second wife
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1.1

‘lustre’

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  • brilliance
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1.1

‘vile’

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  • abhorrent
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1.2

‘reflection’

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  • evidence/ indication
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1.2

‘wit’

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  • intelligence
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1.3

‘senseless’

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  • unfeeling
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1.3

‘eye-strings’

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  • the nerves, blood vessels, tendons, or muscles of the eye which were thought to break at death or loss of sight
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1.3

‘interest’

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  • entitlement or claim (to him)
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1.4

‘crescent note’

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  • growing reputation

- Posthumus’ star is rising, like the increasing, crescent-shaped moon

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1.4

‘furnished’

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  • equipped
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1.4

‘mended’

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  • revised/ improved
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1.4

‘signor’

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  • gentleman/ sir
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1.4

‘approbation’

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  • proof
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1.4

‘have articles’

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  • procure a legal agreement
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1.5

‘cordial’

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  • restorative
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1.5

‘earnest’

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  • the first payment to seal a bargain
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1.5

‘closet’

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  • private chamber
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1.6

‘seasons’

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  • strengthens/ tempers
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1.6

‘Partition’

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  • distinction/ separation
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1.6

‘trow’

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  • I wonder
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1.6

‘cloyed will’

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  • lust overfed to the point of surfeit
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1.6

‘raps’

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  • transports
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1.6

‘peevish’

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  • irritable, ill-tempered

- temperamental

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1.6

‘Gallian’

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  • someone from Gallia (the Latin name for Gaul)
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1.6

‘wrack’

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  • ruin and loss
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1.6

‘Slaver’

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  • slobber, to wet with saliva
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1.6

‘stinking tallow’

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  • smelly candle made from animal fat
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1.6

‘beggary’

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  • contemptible meanness
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1.6

‘Recoil’

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  • degenerate
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1.6

‘saucy’

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  • impudent, lascivious

- insolent (a stronger term than now)

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1.6

‘to mart’

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  • should bargain, make a deal

- to do business (the verb derives from the noun ‘mart’ as in marketplace)

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1.6
‘witch’

‘holy witch’

A
  • a wizard or enchanter
  • can be used for both genders
  • a wizard who practises white magic, not black
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2.1

‘pate’

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  • head
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42
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2.1

‘coining’

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  • devising
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43
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2.2

‘taper’

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  • candle

- this very localised source of light in the darkened room builds the tension of the scene by accentuating the darkness

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2.2

‘voucher’

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  • piece of evidence
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2.3

‘vantages’

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  • suitable opportunities
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2.3

‘Prefer’

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  • recommended
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2.3

‘meaner’

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  • socially inferior
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2.3

‘squire’s cloth’

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  • servant’s clothing
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2.3

‘pantler’

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  • a household servant in charge of the bread or pantry

- a lowly position

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2.3

‘underhangman’

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  • an apprentice or assistant to the hangman

- a job that was generally despised

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2.3

‘sprited’

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  • tormented, as by a spirit
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2.3

‘Shrew me’

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  • an aphetic form of ‘beshrew me’, a mild oath meaning ‘the devil take me’
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2.4

‘arrearages’

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  • overdue payments of tribute
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2.4

‘tenor’

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  • substance/ content
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2.4

‘fretted’

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  • elaborately adorned with cravings in decorative patterns, as in ‘fretwork’
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3.2

‘senseless bauble’

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  • insentient trifle

- a trifle, without feeling

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3.3

‘keep house’

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  • stay inside
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3.3

‘jet’

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  • strut/ swagger
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3.3

‘mellow hangings’

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  • ripe fruit
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3.3

‘demesnes’

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  • territories
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3.4

‘pander’

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  • pimp/ procurer
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3.4

‘posting’

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  • swift/ speeding
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3.4

‘panged’

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  • tormented
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3.4

‘false struck’

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  • stricken with slander
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3.4

‘waggish’

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  • mischievious

- roguish

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3.4

‘gibes’

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  • taunts, jeers
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3.4

‘soldier to’

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  • committed to, enlisted to
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3.4

‘stomach qualmed’

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  • taken sick/ nauseous
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3.5

‘packing’

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  • scheming
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3.5

‘sirrah’

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  • a form of address to an inferior, in this instance contemptuous
  • fellow
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3.5

‘industry’

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  • diligence
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3.6
‘churls’
(also ‘carl’)

5.2
‘drudge’

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  • peasants/ rustics (contempuous)

- slave/ serf

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3.7

‘writ’

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  • written command, document
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3.7

‘levy’

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  • recruitment (of soldiers)
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3.7

‘vainglory’

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  • undue vanity
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4.2

‘yoke me’

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  • link myself
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4.2

‘commix’

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  • mingle
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4.2

‘runagates’

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  • runaways ie. Innogen and Posthumus

- vagabond

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4.2

‘reck’

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  • care
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4.2

‘enchafed’

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  • enraged, furious
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4.2

‘Stark’

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  • stiff, rigid
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4.2

‘leagued’

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  • linked, intertwined
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4.2

‘Od’s pittikins’

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  • God’s pity, a colloquial form of ‘God have mercy’

- OED suggests that ‘od’ as a ‘minced form of God’ was introduced around 1600 to avoid overt blasphemy

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4.2

‘lucre’

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  • greed/ financial gain
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4.2

‘pickaxes’

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  • her fingers
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4.3

‘it betid’

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  • has happened
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‘cloyed importantly’

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  • obstructed or impeded with important matters
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4.4

‘quartered fires’

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  • campfires in their quarters
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4.4

‘cracked’

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  • weakened (with age), flawed
90
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5.1
‘weeds’
‘habits’

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  • clothes

- garments

91
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5.3

‘strait’

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  • narrow/ confined
92
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5.3

‘full-hearted’

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  • full of courage and confidence
93
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5.3

‘touched’

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  • wounded
94
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5.3

‘dammed’

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  • blocked
95
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5.3

‘Athwart’

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  • (positioned) across
96
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5.3

‘striplings’

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  • youths passing from boyhood to manhood
97
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5.3

‘bane’

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  • ruin
98
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5.3

‘fly my friendship’

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  • run from me
99
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5.3

‘silly’

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  • simple and rustic
100
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5.4

‘gyves’

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  • fetters, shackles
101
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5.4

‘clement’

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  • compassionate, merciful
102
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5.4

‘dolours’

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  • sorrow
103
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5.4

‘fangled’

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  • fashion-conscious, novelty-obsessed
104
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5.4

‘counters’

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  • metal discs used for making calculations
105
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5.5

‘naked’

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  • unprotected by armour
106
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5.5

‘mortal mineral’

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  • deadly poison
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5.5

‘razed out’

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  • scraped clean, removed by erasure
108
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5.5

‘estate’

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  • spiritual condition
109
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5.5

‘feat’

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  • deft
110
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5.5

‘vassal’

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  • subject
111
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5.5

‘viands’

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  • food, victuals
112
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5.5

‘laming’

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  • making deficient
113
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5.5

‘hook of wiving’

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  • bait for marriage
114
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5.5

‘unspeaking sots’

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  • inarticulate idiots
115
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5.5

‘amorous’

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  • faithful love
116
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5.5

‘simular’

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  • pretended, simulated
117
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5.5

‘benediction’

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  • blessing
118
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5.5

‘fierce abridgement’

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  • drastically compressed account
119
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5.5

‘stock’

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  • trunk
120
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5.5

‘laud’

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  • praise, honour
121
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1.1

‘dotards’

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  • old fools
122
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1.2

‘haven’

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  • harbour
123
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1.4

‘suffer the report’

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  • bear recounting
124
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1.4

‘moiety’

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  • half
125
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1.6

‘vaulting’

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  • sexually straddling
126
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1.6

‘variable ramps’

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  • variety of whores
127
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2.2

‘tinct’

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  • colour
128
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2.3

‘bred of alms’

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  • brought up on charitable relief of the king
129
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2.4

‘pudency’

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  • modesty
130
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3.1

‘giglot’

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  • whore

- Fortune is often presented as such because she is fickle

131
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3.3

‘franklin’

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  • a freeholder, below the rank of a gentleman

- a small landowner

132
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3.7

‘outpeer’

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  • surpass
133
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4.2

‘precious varlet’

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  • arrant rascal
134
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4.2

‘obsequies’

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  • funeral rites
135
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4.4

‘tanlings’ (note the similarity to ‘strip-lings’ as in youths)

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  • children tanned by the sun
136
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4.4

‘rowel’

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  • small, rotating disc at the end of a spur
137
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5.3

‘distaff’

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  • a pole used in spinning
138
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5.3

‘rout’

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  • disorderly flight - a military term
139
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5.3

‘shanks’

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  • legs
140
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5.3

‘geck’

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  • dupe
141
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5.3

‘fealty’

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  • allegiance owing to a lord
142
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5.3

‘whelp’

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  • cub
143
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5.4

‘carbuncle’

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  • a precious stone (red)
144
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1.1

‘widow’

A
  • implies that the Queen is not of royal birth

- king’s objection to Innogen’s choice of husband is thus in contradiction to his own choice to marry someone not noble

145
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1.1

‘gall’

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  • bile, bitter bodily fluid

- ink - made of a bitter oak-gall (parasitic growth on oak bark)

146
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1.1

‘manacle’

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  • can also refer to a shackle ie. derives from ‘manus’ meaning hand
  • Posthumus’ use of the manacle in context suggests an attempt to contain Innogen’s sexuality in marriage in his absence
147
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1.1

‘fraught’

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  • burden
148
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1.1

‘needle’

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  • the female counterpart to a sword, in context an amusing image urging the men to fight
149
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1.1

‘haven’

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  • harbour
150
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1.4

‘battery’

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  • assault/ bombardment
151
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1.4

‘less attemptable’

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  • less open to seduction
152
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1.4

‘dram’

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  • an apothecary’s weight, 1/8th of an ounce
153
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1.5

‘remembrancer’

A
  • a person who reminds her

- word recalls ‘an official appointed to oversee certain affair, esp. debts’

154
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1.6

‘‘th Arabian bird’

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  • phoenix
  • mythical bird, symbolises perfection because it was believed there was only one
  • symbolically linked to virginity
155
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1.6

‘Parthian’

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  • horse-archers of Parthia were proverbially famous for their fighting techniques
156
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1.6

‘‘Twixt fair and (foul)?’

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  • may refer to a prostitute
157
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1.6

‘furnaces’

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  • breathes heavily
158
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1.6

‘by-peeping’

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  • gazing covertly, or intermittently
159
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1.6

‘boiled stuff’

A
  • referring to the ‘sweating tubs’ used to treat venereal disease
160
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1.6

‘service’

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  • devotion or suit of a lover
161
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1.6

‘Romish stew’

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  • Roman brothel
162
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1.6

‘fan’

A
  • winnow, blow upon to separate the chaff from the grain
163
Q

2.1

‘jackanapes’

A
  • a pert, impertinent fellow
164
Q

2.1

‘jack-slave’

A
  • knavish slave
165
Q

2.1

‘strange’

A
  • abnormal/ unnatural

- aloof/ distant

166
Q

2.1

‘derogation’

A
  • a detraction from one’s honour or dignity
167
Q

2.2

‘Cytherea’

A
  • the goddess of beauty and love
  • known to the Greeks as Aphrodite
  • to the Romans as Venus
168
Q

2.3

‘horsehairs and calves’ guts’

A
  • bowstrings and strings for a fiddle or lute
169
Q

2.3

‘forbearance’

A
  • restraint
170
Q

2.4

‘more ordered’

A
  • better disciplined
171
Q

2.4

‘approvers’

A
  • those who put them to the test
172
Q

2.4

‘chimney-piece’

A
  • a piece of sculpture, painting or tapestry used as an ornament over a fire
173
Q

2.4

‘andirons’

A
  • ornamented supports for the iron bars used to hold burning wood in a fireplace, sometimes called ‘fire dogs’
174
Q

2.4

‘cognizance’

A
  • a device or emblem borne for distinction by all the retainers of a noble house
175
Q

2.4

‘colted’

A
  • mounted in sexual intercourse
176
Q

2.5

‘full-acorned’

A
  • well-fed with acorns

- common food for pigs

177
Q

3.1

‘Neptune’s park’

A
  • refers to the British Isles because they are defended by a thick border of trees, and surrounded by dangerous water
178
Q

3.1

‘ribbed and paled in’

A
  • enclosed like the ribs around a body/ timbers of a ship’s hulk
179
Q

3.4

‘jay’

A
  • whore, strumpet
180
Q

3.4

‘cravens’

A
  • renders spiritless through fear
181
Q

3.4

‘stomachers’

A
  • the ornamental covering of the chest… worn by women under the lacing of the bodice
182
Q

3.7

‘proconsul’

A
  • provincial governor

provincial commander carrying out the duties of a consul

183
Q

4.2

‘clotpoll’

A
  • thick or ‘wooden’ head
  • head made of a clod of earth
    blockhead, dolt, numskull
184
Q

4.2

‘jollity for apes and grief for boys’

A
  • superficial joy and shallow grief
185
Q

4.2

‘clouted brogues’

A
  • a rough kind of shoe studded with nails
186
Q

4.2

‘eglantine’

A
  • sweet briar, a species of rose with delicately scented leaves
187
Q

4.2

‘ruddock’

A
  • robin redbreast
188
Q

4.2

‘wench-like’

A
  • girlish, womanish
189
Q

4.2

‘fanes’

A
  • oracles or temple-voices
190
Q

4.2

‘confiners’

A
  • inhabitants, those living within the confines
191
Q

4.2

‘desperate bed’

A
  • death bed
192
Q

4.4

‘During their use’

A
  • as long as they find us useful to them
193
Q

4.4

‘shrinking slaves’

A
  • recoiling from winter’s cold like slaves under the lash
194
Q

5.3

‘country base’

A
  • reference to a children’s game called ‘prisoner’s bar’
195
Q

5.3

‘gilded pale looks’

A
  • restored colour to the soldiers’ faces blanched with fear
196
Q

5.3

‘the first beginners’

A
  • those who first display cowardice
197
Q

5.3

‘veriest hind’

A
  • merest peasant or boor (a rough and bad-mannered person)
198
Q

1.1

hourly

A
  • continual
199
Q

1.1

plight troth

A
  • make a vow of marriage
200
Q

1.1

pinch

A

pain

201
Q

5.4

stomach

A

appetite

202
Q

5.4

vile men

A

creditors, or usurers, who seize a portion of the money or goods belonging to their debtors

203
Q

5.4

abatement

A

the reduced principal on a loan after the creditor has seized money or goods in partial payment

204
Q

5.4
thunder-master

Lucina

A

Jupiter

Roman goddess of childbirth

205
Q

5.4

Leonati seat

A

literally - the ancestral home of the Leonati family

figuratively - used to refer to his family’s honour

206
Q

5.4

fealthy

A

loyalty to Tenantius, Cymbeline’s father

207
Q

5.4

acquittance

A

deliverance (from debt as well as life)

208
Q

5.5

peculiar care

A

personal concerns

209
Q

5.5

boon

A

favour, request

210
Q

5.5

Winnow

A

separate, as grain is separated out from chaff during threshing

211
Q

5.5

straight-pight Minerva

A

straight-pitched, hence an erect, tall image of the goddess of the arts and war

212
Q

5.5

staggers

A

giddiness, dizziness, usually with reference to diseases of horses that prompt them to walk unsteadily

213
Q

5.5

spritely shows

A

ghostly visions

214
Q

5.5

crooked

A

crookèd, referring to curling or twisting smoke

215
Q

5.3

distaff

A

a long, cleft pole through which fibres of wool or flax were drawn to spin them into thread, and it came to symbolise women

216
Q

5.3

drooping

A

faltering

217
Q

1.1

neatherd

A

cowherd - one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen

218
Q

1.3

vantage

A

with his next opportunity

219
Q

1.4

atone

A

reconcile

220
Q

irregulous

A

unruly, lawless, uncontrollable

Cymbeline (10 decks)

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