Act 2 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.  forgeries                            put on him what forgeries you please

 

2.  quaintly                              breathe his faults so quaintly that they may seem the taints of liberty

 

3.  prenominate               Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes

 

4.  windlasses                         With windlasses and with assays of bias

 

5.  perusal                               He falls to such a perusal of my face as a would draw it.

 

6. ecstasy                                This is the very ecstasy of love.

 

7.  foredoes                             Whose violent property foredoes itself

 

8.  beshrew                             but beshrew my jealousy

 

9.  brevity                               brevity is the soul of wit

 

10.  art                                    More matter, with less art

 

11.  method                             Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t

 

12.  confines                           in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst

 

13.  piece of work                What a piece of work is man!

 

14.  mad                                  am but mad north-north-west, … I know a hawk from a handsaw

 

15.  conception                      conception is a blessing

 

16.  desert                              Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping?

 

17.  rogue                               O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I

 

18.  Hecuba                           What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba

 

19.  assume                            the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape

 

20.  conscience                                 The play’s the thing in which I’ll catch the conscience of the king

 

 

Act 2 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. art                   A. The awareness of a moral aspect to one's conduct

2.      assume            B.  Intense joy or delight.

3. beshrew            C.  Cleverly made; artful.
4. brevity            D.  One that is in a specified condition or performs in a specified action

5.      caviary            E. Wife of Priam and mother of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra in The Iliad

6. confines            F.  To read or examine, typically with great care.

 

7. conscience            G.  To raise with a windlass

8.      desert              H.  becoming pregnant; understanding

9. ecstasy                      I.  Something counterfeit, forged, or fraudulent
10. foredoes            J.  A wandering beggar; a vagrant
11. forgeries            K. To invoke evil upon; curse.

12.  Hecuba            L.  A means or manner of procedure

13. mad                 M.  To take upon oneself
14. method            N. To name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.
15. perusal            O. To leave empty or alone; abandon.
16. piece of work            P. destroys
17. quaintly            Q. artistic perfection; (ironic) worthless
18. prenominate            R. Angry; resentful.

19.  rogue               S. To keep within bounds; restrict

20. windlasses            T. The quality or state of being brief in duration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2. M

3. K

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