Twelfth night Vocab 2

Question 1

feelings of great warmth and intensity
Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;
And let your ____, like my master’s, be
Placed in contempt!

Answer 1

Fervor

Question 2

model of excellence or perfection of a kind
My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Could be but recompensed, though you were crown’d
The ___ of beauty!

Answer 2

Nonpareil

Question 3

unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
___! I defy ___

Answer 3

lechery

Question 4

the state of being weak in health or body
God send you, sir, a speedy ____, for the better increasing your folly!

Answer 4

infirmity

Question 5

jump about playfully
Let me see thee ___; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!

Answer 5

Caper

Question 6

approach and speak to someone aggressively or insistently
You mistake, knight: ___ is, front her, board her, woo her, assail her.

Answer 6

accost

Question 7

lessen the intensity of or calm
for besides that he’s a fool, he’s a great quarreller: and but that he hath the gift of a coward to ___ the gust he hath in quarrelling, ‘tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave.

Answer 7

allay

Question 8

limited in size or scope
Ay, but you must confine yourself within the ___ limits of order.

Answer 8

modest

Question 9

given or giving freely
I prithee, and I’ll pay thee _____,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent.

Answer 9

Bounteous

Question 10

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count, That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother, Who shortly also died: for whose dear love, They say, she hath the company And sight of men

Answer 10

abjure

Question 11

obtain by coercion or intimidation
But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not ____ from me what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express myself.

Answer 11

extort

Question 12

crafty artfulness, especially in deception
She loves me, sure: the ___ of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger

Answer 12

cunning

Question 13

moral weakness
Alas, our ___ is the cause, not we;
For such as we are made of, such we be.

Answer 13

frailty

Question 14

shower with love; show excessive affection for
How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly, And I, poor monster, fond as much on him; And she, mistaken, seems to ____ on me.

Answer 14

Dote

Question 15

a feeling of righteous anger
Do’t, knight; I’ll write thee a challenge; or I’ll deliver thy ____ to him by word of mouth.

Answer 15

indignation

Question 16

fool or hoax
For Monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him: if I do not ____ him into a nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed

Answer 16

gull

Question 17

any clever maneuver
Excellent! I smell a ____

Answer 17

device

Question 18

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an _____ regard of control

Answer 18

austere

Question 19

cause to accept or become hardened to
And, to _____ thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh

Answer 19

inure

Question 20

unfriendly and inclined toward anger or irritation
Be opposite with a kinsman, _____ with servants: let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity: She thus advises thee that sighs for thee.

Answer 20

surly