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Act IV Pre-Reading Vocabulary

Part 1: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the bold words mean.

1. Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy **amiable** cheeks do coy; And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ear, my gentle joy.

AMIABLE means:

2. Do not **fret** yourself too much in the action, monsieur, and good monsieur, have a care the honey bag break not.

FRET means:

3. I would be **loath** to have you overflown with a honey bag, signior.

LOATH means:

4. Gently **entwist**, the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.

ENTWIST means:

5. Her **dotage** now I do begin to pity.

DOTAGE means:

6. I did **upbraid** her and fall out with her;

UPBRAID means:

7. We will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top. And mark the musical confusion Of hounds and echo in **conjunction**

CONJUNCTION means:

8. How comes this gentle concord in the world, That hatred is so far from jealousy; To sleep by hate, and fear no **enmity**?

ENMITY means:

9. Let's follow him, And by the way let us **recount** our dreams.

RECOUNT means:

10. Masters, I am to **discourse** wonders.

DISCOURSE means:

Part 2--Determining the Meaning You have tried to figure out the meanings for the vocabulary words for Act IV. Now match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. If there are words for which you cannot figure out the definition by context clues and process of elimination, look them up in a dictionary.


 * 31. amiable || A. be unwilling or reluctant; disinclined. ||
 * 32. fret || B. twist together ||
 * 33. loath || C. friendly and agreeable; good-natured and likeable ||
 * 34. entwist || D. worry ||
 * 35. dotage || E. to reprove sharply, reproach, "tell off" ||
 * 36. upbraid || F. a deterioration of mental faculties; senility ||
 * 37. conjunction || G. conversation (could be written down or spoken) ||
 * 38. enmity || H. to narrate the facts or particulars of ||
 * 39. recount || I. deep-seated, often mutual hatred ||
 * 40. discourse || J. two things happening at the same time ||