Act+I+Vocabulary

==Do these short vocabulary exercises before you try to read Act I. Understanding some of the harder words will make your life a lot easier! You will also be able to read with feeling better if you know what your character is saying!==

A: Context

 * Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use the clues in the sentence, plus your prior knowledge, and write down what you think the bold words mean:**

1. With cunning hast thou **filched** my daughter's heart, Turned her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness.

FILCHED means:

2. Either to die the death, or to **abjure** Forever the society of men.

ABJURE means:

3. A good **persuasion**.

PERSUASION means:

4. I have a widow aunt, a dowager, Of great **revenue**, and she hath no child.

REVENUE means:

5. Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold Her silver **visage** in the watery glass, Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass, A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal, Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.

VISAGE means:

6. Things **base** and vile, holding not quantity Love can transpose to form and dignity.

BASE means:

7. So the boy Love is **perjured** everywhere: For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;

PERJURED means:

8. Marry, our play is The most **lamentable** comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

LAMENTABLE means:

9. You may do it **extempore**, for it is nothing but roaring.

EXTEMPORE means:

10. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more **discretion** but to hang us.

DISCRETION means:

B: Determining the meaning You have tried to figure out the meanings of the vocabulary words for Act One. Now, match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. Be sure to write down the word AND the definition, as you will need these to study! If there are words which you cannot figure out from the context clues above, look them up in a dictionary. Be certain that the definition you choose makes sense in the context of the line above!

NOTE: DO NOT write : 1. B (not the right answer, by the way) on your paper! You cannot study from a random string of letters and numbers! Write something like: 1. Dowager = old noblewoman who has no power herself. This is easier to study from.
 * 1. Filched || A. face or appearance ||
 * 2. Abjure || B. to give up, or abstain from ||
 * 3. Persuasion || C. strongly held opinion, or a conviction ||
 * 4. Revenue || D. worthy of grief, mourning, or regret ||
 * 5. Visage || E. spoken, carried out, or composed with little or no preparation ||
 * 6. Base || F. ability or power to decide responsibly ||
 * 7. Perjured || G. testified falsely under oath, falsified, untrue ||
 * 8. Lamentable || H. income or wealth ||
 * 9. Extempore || I. snitched or stole ||
 * 10. Discretion || J. the lowest or bottom part, or the lowest, most crude something ||