| Usury | Practice of lending money with interest |
| Usury Sentence | The practice of usury was how the Jewish population made money in Venice |
| Masque | A celebration or ball were people are using masks |
| Masque Sentence | The performers of the masque had a hidden identity |
| Exhort | To try to influence someone by words of advice |
| Exhort Sentence | I exhorted my mother to let me go to the party |
| Abate | To lose strength |
| Abate Sentence | We wanted to leave but waited for the storm to abate |
| Alabaster | A type of rock used to make vase, skin color, and decorations |
| Alabaster Sentence | The white vase was made out of alabaster |
| Allay | To make someone less sever or strong |
| Allay Sentence | My dads call from China allayed our worries of his travels |
| Carrion | The flesh of dead animals |
| Carrion Sentence | The dog ate the carrion off the street |
| Chaff | shells of seeds |
| Chaff Sentence | This test will separate the weak from the chaff |
| Commodity | something that is bought or sold |
| Commodity Sentence | The merchant went to sea to oversee his commodities |
| Edifice | A large or massive structure |
| Edifice Sentence | The storm knocked the edifice down |
| Burgher | A person who lives in a particular town |
| Burgher Sentence | He was welcome by a group of wealthy burghers and didn’t want to talk to them |
| Jaundice | a state or attitude characterized by hostility or bitterness |
| Jaundice Sentence | Janice has a jaundiced view on politics |
| Livery | a special uniform worn by servants especially in the past |
| Livery Sentence | The servant’s livery had to be clean on the job |
| Nuptial | Of or relating to marriage |
| Nuptial Sentence | Janice received a beautiful nuptial present |
| Prodigal | wasteful or recklessly extravagant |
| Prodigal Sentence | The annual feast was prodigal in its large manner |
| Shrive | to hear a confession of a person |
| Shrive Sentence | I shrived the remorseful lady |
| Strumpet | A prostitute |
| Strumpet Sentence | The man had an affair with a strumpet |
| Shrew | A woman of violent temper and speech |
| Shrew Sentence | The shrew went on a long rampage |
| Cuckold | The husband of an unfaithful wife |
| Cuckold Sentence | As the goodie spread, people began to feel sorry for the cuckold man |
| Paltry | Ridiculously or insultingly small, utterly worthless |
| Paltry Sentence | I only have a paltry around of change |
Merchant Of Venice Vocab 1
July 7, 2019