Monday, May 11, 2015

MERCHANT OF VENICE - SHAKESPEARE - VOCABULARY LIST

Merchant of Venice

1. Bestow – to grant or to give 
2. Burnish – to make shiny or to polish by rubbing 
3. Dulcet – pleasing to the ear, melodious, euphonious 
4. Epitaph – an inscription in memory of a dead person (usually on a tombstone) 
5. Gambol – to playfully skip or leap 
6. Grievous – characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave 
7. Impertinent – insolently rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners 
8. Impugn – to assail or to attack one’s honor or integrity 
9. Impute – to blame or to charge 
10. Malice – desire to harm others 
11. Mirth – gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter 
12. Mitigate – to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe 
13. Obdurate – extremely stubborn, unwilling to accept advice 
14. Obscure – difficult to see, vague 
15. Presage – something that foreshadows a future event; foreknowledge of the future 
16. Prodigal – wasteful, a person given to extravagance 
17. Quaint – unusual in character or appearance 
18. Spurn - to reject or to refuse with hostility 
19. Superfluous – beyond what is needed or required, an overflow 
20. Tarry – to delay in coming or going, to linger 
21. Vehement – forcefully expressing emotion or conviction 
22. Zeal – enthusiasm, fervor 
23. Wanton – immoral, lewd 
24. Trifling – not significant, frivolous 
25. Abate - to reduce in intensity or amount.

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