| Assay | To examine or analyze.S: evaluation, inspection |
| Augment | To make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; to increase.S: develop, strengthen |
| Beguile | To influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.S: mislead, deceive, entice |
| Conceit | An excessively favorable opinion of one’s own ability, importance, wit, etc. S: arrogance, narcissism |
| Confute | To prove to be false, invalid or defective; disprove.S: invalidate, disprove |
| Congeal | To curdle; coagulate, as fluid.S: thicken, stiffen |
| Countenance | Appearance, especially the look or expression of the face.S: demeanor, visage |
| Diligence | Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.S: vigor, intensity |
| Discourse | Communication of thought by words; talk; conversation.S: rhetoric, communication |
| Doublet | A close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance. S: clothing, garment |
| Emulation | Effort or desire to equal or excel others.S: stimulation, impersonation |
| Gorged | Represented wearing something about the neck in the manner of a collar; excessively eating or drinkingS: feed, guzzle |
| Hectic | Characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement.S: frenzied, chaotic |
| Indulgence | Gratification of desire.S: extravagance, privilage |
| Kindle | To excite; stir up or set going; animate; rouse; inflame.S: ignite, inflame |
| Manifold | having numerous parts, elements, features, forms, etc.S: multiplied, multiple, assorted |
| Mirth | Gaity or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter.S: laughter, levity, hilarity |
| Mitigate | To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.S: dull, lessen, ease |
| Moiety | An indefinite portion, part or share.S: share, component, element. |
| Obsequious | characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference, fawning.S: complacent, submissive |
| Offal | the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion.S: waste, remains, debris |
| Partisan | An adherent or supporter of a person, group, party or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance. S: sympathetic, biased, partial |
| Pate | The crown or top of the head.S: brain, crown, head |
| Posterity | Succeeding or future generations collectively.S: lineage, brood, progeny |
| Quagmire | An area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.S: predicament, quandry |
| Retrograde | Moving backwards; having a backwards motion or direction; retiring or retreating.S: reversed, inverted, backwards |
| Rivals | A person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another competitor.S: opponents, competitors, adversaries |
| Rouse | To bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.S: awake, arouse, rise |
| Sinews | A tendon; strength; power; resilience.S: force, power, vitality |
| Strewment | Something strewed or intended for strewing such as flowers.S: throw, spread |
| Sty | A pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.S: pen, pigpen |
| Suspiration | A long, deep sigh.S: lamentation, exhalation |
| Tenable | Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.S: plausible, defensible, justifiable |
| Vaunt | To speak vaingloriously of; boast of.S: boast, flaunt, brag |
| Wit | The keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.S: fun, joke, satire, banter |
Hamlet Vocabulary Barry
September 9, 2019