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Shakespeare Vocab
Vocabulary for Julius Caesar--English 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reference to well known event or person | Allusion |
| Speech performed onstage alone | Soliloquy |
| drama with much loss/suffering | Tragedy |
| A moral person with a fatal flaw or weakness | Tragic character |
| An undertaking of complication/risk | Enterprise |
| to beg for | Beseech |
| an inner voice of right/wrong | conscience |
| to be aware | conscious |
| an unprincipled, crafty man; servant | knave |
| why | wherefore |
| to raise in esteem or status | exalt |
| courage; quality of a character's personality | mettle |
| unable to have children | barren |
| a fortune-teller, a seer | soothsayer |
| a large group packed closely together | throng |
| appearance, expression of face | countenance |
| to annoy, to bother | vex |
| to interpret | construe |
| serious thoughts/considerations | cogitations |
| to express grief | lament |
| connected by submission | yoke |
| to exhibit affection/attempt to please | fawn |
| an extra item of equipment or dress | accoutrement |
| weak, meager | feeble |
| one of lesser rank, subordinate | underling |
| to imagine, to create | conjure |
| to hate | loath |
| a violent windstorm | tempest |
| heated, violent disagreement or fight | strife |
| a prophecy, an omen | portent |
| involving danger | perilous |
| extraordinary, especially in size | prodigious |
| absolute power of one | tyranny |
| a change from basic to better, sometimes considered magical | alchemy |
| moral anguish, bitter regret | remorse |
| to make something bigger or better | augment |
| to make amends, to make right | redress |
| friendly, approachable | affable |
| the practice of divination or prediction | augury |
| to imitate so as to improve | emulate |
| a face or facial expression | visage |
| the rights of citizenship | enfranchisement |
| to calm/soothe | appease |
| widespread destruction | havoc |
| dead/decaying flesh | carrion |