Hamlet Vocabulary List Acts II-III Flashcards
Entreat (v.)
Ask for in earnest; plead
I entreat you both
Fetter (n.)
Shackles/chains for ankles or feet; imprisonment trap
I did repel his fetters and denied his access to me
Beseech (v.)
Ask for in earnest; plead
And I beseech you instantly to visit
Rebuke (n.)
Rebuke (v.)
(n. ) an act of criticism
(v. ) to criticize
Receives rebuke from Norway
Expostulate (v.)
Reason or argue against something
To expostulate/What majesty should be
Brevity (n.)
Briefness; conciseness
Since brevity is the soul of wit
Carrion (n.)
Rotting flesh
Being a god kissing carrion
Contrive (v.)
Contrived (adj.)
(v. ) make a plan for something
(adj. ) obviously planned or forced; artificial
And suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter
Visage (n.)
Facial appearance
From her working all his visage wann’d
Offal (n.)
Organs of animals considered unfit for humans to eat; anything of little value or use
With this slave’s offal: bloody, bawdy villain
Rogue (n.)
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel; rebellious unpredictable
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue
Turbulent (adj.)
Characterized by unrest or disorder
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet/With turbulent and dangerous lunacy
Affront (v.)
Affront (n.)
(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
Pious (adj.)
Showing respect for a deity; devoted; loyal
And pious action we do sugar o’er/The devil himself
Insolence (n.)
Disrespect; arrogance; offense
The insolence of office and the spurns/That patient merit of the unworthy takes
Awry (adv.)
Turned off the expected course “go awry”
With this regard their currents turn awry
Inoculate (v.)
Introduce and idea or attitude into someone’s mind; protect
For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it
Calumny (n.)
Slanderous attack on a person’s good name
Thou shalt not escape calumny
Temperance (n.)
The trait of avoiding excess; self-control; moderation; restraint
A temperance that may give it smoothness
Lament (v.)
Express grief; mourn
Seeming to lament with her
Gambol (v.)
Frolic; play; come alive
Which madness would gambol from
Unction (n.)
Medicine applied externally to soothe an irritation; source of comfort and healing
Lay not that mattering unction to your soul
Prate (v.)
Babble; speak excessively about unimportant matters
Who was in life a foolish prating knave
