The Merchant of Venice Vocabulary Act II

Question 1

rouse

Answer 1

to wake from sleep; to excite to action from a state of idleness or inattention

Question 2

beseech

Answer 2

to beg, to entreat, to supplicate, to implore, or to ask or pray with urgency

Question 3

famished

Answer 3

exhausted by hunger, starved

Question 4

tedious

Answer 4

wearisome because or length or dullness, boring

Question 5

quaintly

Answer 5

pleasing or strikingly old-fashioned (now); in Shakespeare’s time—cleverly, skillfully

Question 6

prodigal

Answer 6

spending lots of money needlessly; living lavishly and wastefully

Question 7

proverb

Answer 7

a short sentence often repeated, expressing a well-known truth or common fact, ascertained by experience or observation; a maxim of wisdom

Question 8

inscription

Answer 8

something written or engraved to communicate knowledge to after ages; any character, word, line or sentence written or engraved on a solid substance for duration

Question 9

injunction

Answer 9

a command or order given under the direction of a superior vested with authority

Question 10

barbarous

Answer 10

uncivilized, savage, unlettered, untutored, ignorant