shakespeare vocab Flashcards

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Prodigous

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extraordinary in degree, marvelous, causing amazement or wonder

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Shroud

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burial cloth

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Augment

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to make greater or supplement

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Boisterous

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rowdy or rough

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Valiant

A

Courageous

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Pernicious

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Very destructive or harmful

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Virtuous

A

Having excellent morals; righteous

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Ambiguous

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uncertain; open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations

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Supercilious

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behaving as though one thinks one is superior to others; haughty; arrogant

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Amend

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to change or modify (something) for the better; improve

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Solace

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comfort

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Feign

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to pretend

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Beguile

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to deceive or mislead

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Abhor

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to hate; to shun

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Valor

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courage; bravery

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Doleful

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sad, melancholy

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Penury

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extreme poverty

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Sepulcher

A

burial vault

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Pestilence

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fatal epidemic or plague

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Haughty

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proud to the point of arrogance