Act 1 Vocabulary – Hamlet

 

Part I-Connotation: based on how the word is used in the following phrase, give the  logical, implied meaning for the word. Don’t use a dictionary but instead your interpretation. Please put your answers on a separate piece of paper.

 

1.  Liegemen                           liegemen to the Dane

 

2.  Dreaded                             touching his dreaded sight

 

3.  Entreated                           I have entreated him along.

 

4.  Apparition                          If again this apparition come…

 

5.  Bode                                  This bodes some strange eruption

 

6. Auspicious                         With an auspicious and dropping eye

 

7.  Disjoint                              Our state is disjoint and out of frame

 

8.  Commend                          Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.

 

9.  Suspiration                         Nor windy suspiration of forced breath

 

10.  Visage                              Nor the dejected haviour of the visage

 

11.  Credent                            If with too credent ear you list his songs

 

12.  Prodigal                            The chariest maid is prodigal enough

 

13.  Vulgar                              Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar

 

14.  Perilous                            unsifted in such perilous circumstance.

 

15.  Beguile                           The better to beguile

 

16.  Breach                            More honour’d in the breach than the observance

 

17.  Censure                          Shall in the general censure take corruption

 

18.  Ponderous                       Hath op’d his ponderous and marble jaws

 

19.  Disposition                               So horridly to shake our disposition

 

20.  Fathom                            That looks so many fathoms to the sea

 

21.  Torment                          sulph’rous and tormenting flames

 

22.  Fretful                             Like quills upon the fretful porcupine

 

23.  Pale                                            To pale his uneffectual fire

 

24.  Pernicious                       O most pernicious woman!

 

25.  Antic                               To put an antic disposition on

 

Act 1 Matching – Hamlet

 

Part II-Denotation: on a separate piece of paper match the vocabulary word with its definition. You will probably need a dictionary to accomplish this.

 

1. Antic               A. to lead by deception
2. Apparition            B. infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard
3. Auspicious            C. a judgment involving condemnation
4. Beguile                      D. unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
5. Bode               E. a unit of length equal to six feet used for measuring the depth of water
6. Breach                        F. to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind
7. Censure            G. to enclose or fence in
8. Commend            H. highly injurious or destructive: wicked
9. Credent            I. an attention-drawing often wildly playful or funny act or action
10. Disjoint            J. disposed to becoming vexed or worried
11. Disposition            K. yielding abundantly
12. Dreaded            L. lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste
13. Entreated            M. one that performs duties for a master or personal employer
14. Fathom            N. to regard with awe
15. Fretful             O. to make an earnest request
16. Liegemen            P. a ghostly figure
17. Pale                 Q. to announce beforehand
18. Perilous            R. affording a favorable observation
19. Pernicious            S. to disturb the orderly structure or arrangement of
20. Ponderous            T. to entrust for care or preservation
21. Prodigal            U. a long deep breath
22. Suspiration            V. the face, countenance, or appearance of a perso
23. Torment            W. to have confidence : trusting
24. Visage             X. prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination
25. Vulgar             Y. full of or involving danger