Liegeman | Definition: vassal, subject, followerContext: [Marcellus to Francisco, identifying himself and Horatio] liegemen to the Dane |
Apparition | Definition: Context: |
Assail | Definition: attack, assault, addressContext: [Barnardo to Horatio] And let us once again assail your ears, / That are so fortified against our story |
Harrow | Definition: Context: |
Usurp | Definition: Context: |
Avouch | Definition: Assurance; guaranteeContext: [Horatio to Barnardo, of the Ghost] the sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes |
Martial | Definition: Context: |
Bode | Definition: forebode, portend, predict, augurContext: [Horatio to Marcellus, of the Ghost] This bodes some strange eruption to our state |
Portentous | Definition: Context: |
Mote | Definition: Context: |
Palmy | Definition: Context: |
Tenant | Definition: Context: |
Precurse | Definition: Context: |
Harbinger | Definition: Context: |
Malicious | Definition: Context: |
Auspicious | Definition: smiling, cheerful, happyContext: [Claudius to all] With an auspicious and a dropping eye |
Dirge | Definition: funeral song, song of mourningContext: [Claudius to all] With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage |
Dole | Definition: grief, sorrow, sadnessContext: [Claudius to his court, of himself] In equal scale weighing delight and dole |
Suspiration | Definition: Context: |
Filial | Definition: Context: |
Impious. | Definition: Context: |
Jocund | Definition: Context: |
Dexterity | Definition: agility, adroitness, facilityContext: [Hamlet alone, of his mother] to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets |
Truncheon | Definition: Context: |
Countenance | Definition: favourable appearance, supportContext: [Ophelia to Polonius, of Hamlet] And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, / With almost all the holy vows of heaven |
Perchance | Definition: Context: |
Requite | Definition: Context: |
Besmirch | Definition: discolour, sully, stainContext: [Laertes to Ophelia, of Hamlet] And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch / The virtue of his will |
Circumscribe | Definition: restrict, reduce, limitContext: [Laertes to Ophelia, of Hamlet choosing a wife] must his choice be circumscribed |
Credent | Definition: trustful, believing, credulousContext: [Laertes to Ophelia, of Hamlet] Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain / If with too credent ear you list his songs |
Chary | Definition: carefully, dearly, with cherishing |
Prodigal | Definition: Context: |
Libertine | Definition: Context: |
Dalliance | Definition: frivolity, idleness, wasteful activityContext: [Ophelia to Laertes] [do not follow] the primrose path of dalliance |
Importune | Definition: Context: |
Wassail | Definition: Context: |
Draught | Definition: Context: |
Traduce | Definition: Context: |
Cerement | Definition: waxed shroud, grave-clothes, winding sheetContext: [Hamlet to Ghost] tell / Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, / Have burst their cerements |
Ponderous | Definition: Context: |
Leperous | Definition: infected, poisoned, leprosy-likeContext: [Ghost to Hamlet] And in the porches of my ears did pour / The leperous distilment |
Distilment | Definition: distillation, extractContext: [Ghost to Hamlet] And in the porches of my ears did pour / The leperous distilment |
Matin | Definition: Context: |
Sinew | Definition: Context: |
Pernicious | Definition: Context: |
Arrant | Definition: downright, absolute, unmitigatedContext:[Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus] There’s never a villain dwelling in all Denmark – / But he’s an arrant knave |
Ambiguous | Definition: Context: |
Hamlet Vocabulary: Act One
August 8, 2019