Hamlet Vocab. #1 - English

Question 1

seize and take control without authority

Answer 1

usurp

Question 2

one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe

Answer 2

moiety

Question 3

of momentous or ominous significance

Answer 3

portentous

Question 4

something indicating the approach of something or someone

Answer 4

harbinger

Question 5

a pike with a long tapering blade with lateral projections

Answer 5

partisan

Question 6

worthy of religious veneration

Answer 6

hallowed

Question 7

auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

Answer 7

auspicious

Question 8

relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring

Answer 8

filial

Question 9

attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

Answer 9

obsequious

Question 10

moving or directed or tending in a backward direction

Answer 10

retrograde

Question 11

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

Answer 11

jocund

Question 12

extended verbal expression in speech or writing

Answer 12

discourse

Question 13

absent without permission

Answer 13

truant

Question 14

the appearance conveyed by a person’s face

Answer 14

countenance

Question 15

based on sound reasoning or evidence

Answer 15

tenable

Question 16

smear so as to make dirty or stained

Answer 16

besmirch

Question 17

recklessly wasteful

Answer 17

prodigal

Question 18

a dissolute person

Answer 18

libertine

Question 19

young and inexperienced

Answer 19

unfledged

Question 20

harsh criticism or disapproval

Answer 20

censure

Question 21

the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Answer 21

husbandry

Question 22

a negotiation between enemies

Answer 22

parley

Question 23

attract; cause to be enamored

Answer 23

beguile

Question 24

speak unfavorably about

Answer 24

traduce

Question 25

treat as a sacred person

Answer 25

canonize

Question 26

royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

Answer 26

sovereignty

Question 27

mixed with impurities

Answer 27

adulterate

Question 28

a state of deep-seated ill-will

Answer 28

enmity

Question 29

exceedingly harmful

Answer 29

pernicious

Question 30

ludicrously odd

Answer 30

antic