cudgel | a short heavy club |
abhorred | hated; despised |
splenitive | Quick-tempered |
pall | become less interesting or attractive |
perdition | eternal damnation |
scant | Barely enough |
felicity | happiness; bliss |
circumvent | to avoid |
gibes | mocking remarks, jokes |
asunder | into parts or pieces |
amities | Friendship; peaceful harmony |
verity | truth; reality |
carouses | drinking and celebrating noisily |
lest | for fear that |
(the) quick | the sensitive skin under your fingernails and toenails |
profane | lewd, indecent |
prate | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
shriving | confessing of sins |
sore | causing misery or pain or distress |
dally | to waste time, to stall |
equivocation | intentionally vague or ambiguous |
churlish | lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude |
insinuation | hint, suggestion, reference, implication |
purposed | decided |
swoon | to faint from extreme emotion |
Hamlet Act 5-vocabulary
August 4, 2019