Hamlet Vocabulary List Acts II-III

Question 0

Entreat (v.)

Answer 0

Ask for in earnest; plead

I entreat you both

Question 1

Fetter (n.)

Answer 1

Shackles/chains for ankles or feet; imprisonment trap

I did repel his fetters and denied his access to me

Question 2

Beseech (v.)

Answer 2

Ask for in earnest; plead

And I beseech you instantly to visit

Question 3

Rebuke (n.)

Rebuke (v.)

Answer 3

(n. ) an act of criticism
(v. ) to criticize

Receives rebuke from Norway

Question 4

Expostulate (v.)

Answer 4

Reason or argue against something

To expostulate/What majesty should be

Question 5

Brevity (n.)

Answer 5

Briefness; conciseness

Since brevity is the soul of wit

Question 6

Carrion (n.)

Answer 6

Rotting flesh

Being a god kissing carrion

Question 7

Contrive (v.)

Contrived (adj.)

Answer 7

(v. ) make a plan for something
(adj. ) obviously planned or forced; artificial

And suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter

Question 8

Visage (n.)

Answer 8

Facial appearance

From her working all his visage wann’d

Question 9

Offal (n.)

Answer 9

Organs of animals considered unfit for humans to eat; anything of little value or use

With this slave’s offal: bloody, bawdy villain

Question 10

Rogue (n.)

Answer 10

A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel; rebellious unpredictable

A pestilence on him for a mad rogue

Question 11

Turbulent (adj.)

Answer 11

Characterized by unrest or disorder

Grating so harshly all his days of quiet/With turbulent and dangerous lunacy

Question 12

Affront (v.)

Affront (n.)

Answer 12

(v. ) treat or speak to rudely
(n. ) a rude or disrespectful act “an affront to”

That he, as ‘twere by accident, may here/Affront Ophelia

Question 13

Pious (adj.)

Answer 13

Showing respect for a deity; devoted; loyal

And pious action we do sugar o’er/The devil himself

Question 14

Insolence (n.)

Answer 14

Disrespect; arrogance; offense

The insolence of office and the spurns/That patient merit of the unworthy takes

Question 15

Awry (adv.)

Answer 15

Turned off the expected course “go awry”

With this regard their currents turn awry

Question 16

Inoculate (v.)

Answer 16

Introduce and idea or attitude into someone’s mind; protect

For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it

Question 17

Calumny (n.)

Answer 17

Slanderous attack on a person’s good name

Thou shalt not escape calumny

Question 18

Temperance (n.)

Answer 18

The trait of avoiding excess; self-control; moderation; restraint

A temperance that may give it smoothness

Question 19

Lament (v.)

Answer 19

Express grief; mourn

Seeming to lament with her

Question 20

Gambol (v.)

Answer 20

Frolic; play; come alive

Which madness would gambol from

Question 21

Unction (n.)

Answer 21

Medicine applied externally to soothe an irritation; source of comfort and healing

Lay not that mattering unction to your soul

Question 22

Prate (v.)

Answer 22

Babble; speak excessively about unimportant matters

Who was in life a foolish prating knave