| amity | (noun) friendly relationship |
| aloof | (adj.) not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant; obviously uninvolved and uninterested |
| dulcet | (adj.) sweet and soothing (typically sound) |
| tainted | (verb) to contaminate or pollute; to affect with a bad or undesirable quality |
| bereft | (adj.) deprived of or lacking something; lonely and abandoned |
| gratis | (adv.) without charge; free (adj.) given or done for free |
| relent | verb) to abandon or lessen a harsh intention or cruel treatment |
| intercessor | (noun) mediator; a negotiator who acts as a link between parties |
| cur | (noun) a dog considered to be inferior or undesirable due to its poor condition; a mongrel or mixed-breed dog |
| impeach | (verb) to discredit; to call into question the integrity or validity of a practice or person |
| conceit | (noun) excessive pride in oneself; a fanciful notion or expression; imagination; an elaborate or fanciful metaphor of a strained or far-fetched nature |
| husbandry | (noun) management and conservation of resources |
| imposition | (noun) an excessive or uncalled-for requirement or burden |
| mincing | (adjective) small and dainty |
| fray | (noun) a fight or conflict |
| bastard | noun) a person born of parents not married to each other; an illegitimate child |
| commonwealth | (noun) an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic |
| discretion | (noun) the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information |
| meet | (adjective) fitting, appropriate |
| constrained | (adjective) severely restrict the scope or extent of activity |
| scepter | (noun) an ornamented staff carried by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereign leadership |
| temporal | adjective) relating to worldly affairs as opposed to spiritual affairs; relating to time |
| attribute | (noun) a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something |
| sway | (noun) power; authority |
| render | (verb) provide; give |
| mitigate | (verb) to lessen or reduce; make less severe, serious, or painful; lessen the gravity or seriousness of (an offense or mistake) |
3.2-4.1 Vocab Merchant of Venice
July 22, 2019