Seething | In constant agitation |
Apprehend | To get the meaning of something |
Constancy | The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation |
Revel | take great pleasureI’m going to revel in swapping out lenses, blurring backgrounds and being able to make larger prints. |
Discord | lack of agreement or harmony EXAMPLE SENTENCE:How shall we find the concord of this discord? |
Amiss | no quite right; inappropriate or out of place EXAMPLE SENTENCE:For never anything can be amiss,When simpleness and duty tender it. |
Wretchedness | the quality of being poor and inferior and sorryEXAMPLE SENTENCE:I love not to see wretchedness o’er chargedAnd duty in his service perishing. |
Valor | the qualities of a hero. |
Audacious | invulnerable to fear or intimidationEXAMPLE SENTENCE:And in the modesty of fearful dutyI read as much as from the rattling tongueOf saucy and audacious eloquence. |
Palpable | capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or feltEXAMPLE SENTENCE:This palpable-gross play hath well beguiledThe heavy gait of night. |
Hallowed | worthy of religious venerationEXAMPLE SENTENCE:not a mouseShall disturb this hallow’d house:I am sent with broom before,To sweep the dust behind the door. |
Quell | vanquishing something. |
Broach | bring up a topic for discussionEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,And finds his trusty Thisby’s mantle slain:Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,He bravely broach’d his boiling bloody breast |
Sinister | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developmentsEXAMPLE SENTENCE:And this the cranny is, right and sinister,Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper. |
beshrew | wish harm upon; invoke evil uponEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them!—with one of these we went. |
Reprehend | express strong disapproval ofEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Gentles, do not reprehend |
imbrue | permeate or impregnateEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Call back your Cyclops, let not them imbrue Swart hands in Battle’s sanguinary hue. |
courteous | characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners EXAMPLE SENTENCE:Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this! |
strife | bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension EXAMPLE SENTENCE:For, if I should as lion come in strifeInto this place, ’twere pity on my life. |
Rote | memorization by repetitionEXAMPLE SENTENCE: First, rehearse your song by rote To each word a warbling note: Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place |
Prodigious | far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degreeEXAMPLE SENTENCE: Never mole, hare lip, nor scar, Nor mark prodigious, such as are Despised in nativity, Shall upon their children be. |
apt | being of striking appropriateness and pertinenceEXAMPLE SENTENCE:There is not one word apt, one player fitted |
toil | work hardEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, / Which never labour’d in their minds till now, / And now have toil’d their unbreathed memories / With this same play, against your nuptial. |
impaired | diminished in strength, quality, or utilityEXAMPLE SENTENCE:His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered. |
quell | suppress or crush completelyEXAMPLE SENTENCE:Approach, ye Furies fell!O Fates, come, come,Cut thread and thrum;Quail, crush, conclude, and quell! |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Vocabulary, Act 5
August 7, 2019