| turbulent | characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination |
| affront | treat, mention, or speak to rudely |
| espial | the act of detecting something; catching sight of something |
| pious | having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity |
| calamity | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
| insolence | an offensive disrespectful impudent act |
| spurn | reject with contempt |
| quietus | euphemisms for death |
| bodkin | a dagger with a slender blade |
| pith | the choicest or most vital part of some idea or experience |
| awry | away from the correct or expected course |
| orison | reverent petition to a deity |
| inoculate | introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of |
| knave | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel |
| calumny | an abusive attack on a person’s character or good name |
| melancholy | a humor that was once believed to cause sadness |
| temperance | the trait of avoiding excesses |
| termagant | a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman |
| lament | express grief verbally |
| clemency | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders |
| withers | the highest part of the back at the base of an animal’s neck |
| provincial | associated with an administrative district of a nation |
| gambol | play boisterously |
| unction | preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing |
| prate | speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly |
| perchance | through chance |
| Which of the following would most likely be considered an orison? | the lord’s prayer |
| In which of the following examples does someone spurn another person? | a boy meanly turns down a girl’s to prom |
| melancholy | sad |
| which of these is most likely to be measured at the withers | ox |
| calumny | slander |
| prate | chatter |
| turbulent | troubled |
| unction | anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual |
| pith | substance |
| calamity | tragedy |
| bodkin | dagger |
| gambol | romp |
| knave | rascal |
| clemency | leniency |
| termagant | virago |
| which of these would probably affront someone | calling her an impolite name |
| inoculate | vaccinate |
| unction | excessive but superficial compliments with affected charm |
| prate | gibber |
| awry | amiss |
| calamity | catastrophe |
| melancholy | sorrow |
| clemency | mercy |
| Sources familiar with Geely’s future strategy for Volvo told Reuters that the company plans to cooperate with local city or ________ governments in China to build plants for Volvo cars tailored for Chinese consumers. | provincial |
| knave | rouge |
| lament | grieve |
| Use the noun calumny to characterize verbal attacks that are meant to destroy reputations or friendships. You’ve probably seen political ads during election time that rely on calumny to move voters. | calumny |
| An orison is a prayer or plea to a deity. You might make an orison if you wanted your sick mom to get better. | orison |
| An ________ is an action that causes offense. If someone is talking loudly on his cellphone during a movie, you might consider that an ________. | affront |
| insolence | the trait of being rude and impertinent |
| ________ means restraint and moderation. If you want to eat all of your Halloween candy at once, your parents might tell you to exercise ________. | temperance |
| ________ is a specially-prepared substance meant to bless or heal — the use of special oils in a religious ceremony or the medicine you might put on your chest if you are congested. | unction |
| gambol | frolic |
| Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion–________ soul–a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. | pious |
| Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it’s a word for the gloomiest of spirits. | melancholy |
| Watch out! The robber has a ________ ! A ________ is a short knife with a thin blade. | bodkin |
| To ________ means to talk on and on about something. While it may be interesting to hear about other people’s vacations, when they ________ about them until the wee hours, it becomes intolerable. | prate |
| Use the word ________ to describe an event that causes great harm and misery, or a general state of distress or misery, like the ________ of war. | calamity |
| spurn | turn down |
| Horse breeders and riders measure horses at the ________ , or the shoulder blades, since it’s a stable point that doesn’t move, unlike the horse’s head and neck. | withers |
| A ________ person comes from the backwaters. Someone from a small province outside of Provence, France, might seem a little more ________ and less worldly than someone from, say, Paris. | provincial |
| If you are really upset or sorry about something, you might ________ it. A ________ is full of regret and grief. | lament |
| You’ve got a termagant to deal with, i can tell you. | shrew |
| Old Christopher put into blunt woods phrase the pith of the thoughts that struggled together in Wade’s mind. | kernel |
| You don’t hear about ________ much these days: it’s an older word for a rascal, a scoundrel, or a rogue. It isn’t a compliment. | knave |
| His wife, by means of constant repetition, had inoculated him with her own belief in herself. | introduced an idea or attitude into the mind of |
| Say you’re playing a role-playing game and you end up in one of the other player’s dungeons. You could try begging her for ________ — compassion shown by people in power towards people who rebel or break the law. | clemency |
| There also were several solos that went ________, and ragged entrances here and there in a work with many stops, starts, and changes. | awry |
| Not only did Churchill ________ Fisher’s counsel, he took steps to ensure that Fisher’s perspective would never be considered by the War Cabinet. | spurn |
| Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion–________ soul–a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. | a pious |
| Insolence is a rude, disrespectful act. The teenager’s insolence got her in trouble with her teachers. | insolence |
| If you ________ someone, you try make him immune to a disease by injecting a little dose of it, so his body can make antibodies to fight it off. When you were little you probably got vaccines to ________ you against measles and polio. | inoculate |
| And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gamboling round him. | playing boisterously |
| ________ means chaotic, disordered, characterized by conflict. A time of war is a ________ time for a country. If your family moves and your parents get divorced, you might call that a ________ period in your history. | turbulent |
| The rite of extreme ________ consists in touching with oil consecrated by a bishop several parts of the body of one engaged in dying. | unction |
| To gambol is to run around playing excitedly. Although the word sounds like “gamble,” when you gambol you never lose — you just have a great time! | gambol |
| Mrs. Dent here bent over to the pious lady and whispered something in her ear; I suppose, from the answer elicited, it was a reminder that one of the anathematized race was present. | having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity |
| She was now an outraged queen and now a fiery little termagant. | virago |
| At the other end, Valencia should have done better when his air-shot inside the box allowed a good chance to go awry in the opening 10 minutes, before Robert Green produced a smart double stop from the winger’s shot and Dimitar Berbatov’s flicked follow-up. | away from the correct or expected course |
| lament | mourn |
| Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the ________, for so they termed them, that were circulated about him. | calumny |
| Actor Charles Grodin has sent a letter to the federal judge who will sentence a former New York Senate leader on two corruption charges, pointing out the politician’s role in getting ________ in the mid-1990s for four female inmates. | clemency |
| The idea that hearing actors might be cast in deaf roles affronts him. | affront |
| pith | essence |
| For example, many airlines teach a standardized procedure for copilots to challenge the pilot if he or she thinks something has gone terribly awry. | amiss |
| opposite of spurn | accept |
| If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is pious. Don’t become a priest if you’re not prepared to live a pious life. | pious |
| melancholy | sorrowful |
| The modern concept was invented in the 18th century by physician Benjamin Rush, who, with his fellow temperance campaigners, promoted it as an explanation for, and warning against, the dangers of the demon drink. | abstaining from excess |
| The parish priest was sent for to administer extreme unction to the dying man. | anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual |
| Termagant is an insulting word for a woman who likes to nag, scold, or complain. | termagant |
| When something goes wrong with a decent plan, you say it has gone awry. You accidentally forget your backpack in the airport? That’s a mistake. When the airline loses your suitcase? That’s when something has gone awry. | awry |
| If you reject your mother’s offer to buy you a pair of lederhosen with a snort and eye roll, you are ________ her generosity. To ________ means to reject with disdain. | spurn |
| “We were pouring forth our ________ to Heaven,” replied the friar, with some confusion, “to put an end to the woes of this deplorable province. | orison |
| pith | core |
| Who needs some obsequious old sales assistant, if getting rid of him makes everything more affordable? | grobeling |
| obsequious | attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner |
| And I was certainly not the last to begin—especially at extreme unction. | smug self serving earnestness |
| Which of the following would a termagant be most likely to do? | scold and criticize |
| But some night operations have gone ________, resulting in the deaths of civilians. | awry |
Hamlet Act 3
November 21, 2019