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Hamlet
Act 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sullies | Blemishes |
| Expostulate | To argue |
| Pestilent | Deadly |
| Pious | Holy |
| Bawdry | Dirty |
| Epitaph | An inscription on a tombstone |
| Bounty | Generosity |
| Cleave | To split |
| Lecherous | Creep, pedo. |
| Malefactions | Crimes |
| Tedious | Wearisome |
| Contrive | To devise or plan |
| Gratis | Free; for nothing |
| Parching | Burning |
| Merit | Value; credit |
| This conscience does make cowards of us all | Hamlet, conveys strangth and confidence. act 3 scene 1 line 91 |
| Get thee to a nunnery, go | Hamlet, he could be suggesting that she should enter a convent to live purely. act 3 scene 2 line 131 |
| The purpose of playing. . .is to...hold the mirror up to nature | Hamlet, to show virtue her feature scorne her own image and the visage. Act 3 scene 2 lines 21-24 |
| Blessed are those whose blood and judgement are so well commeddled | Hamlet, the play that hamlet commissions to prove claudius is guilty. act 3 scene 2 line 72 |
| The lady doth protest too much, methinks | Gertrude, the prayer queens distinction of love and identity are too excessive and insistent to be credible. act 3 scene 2 line 254 |
| I must be cruel, only to be kind. | Hamlet, I must be rude to show how bad claudius is. act 3 scene 4 line 199 |
| Good night, sweet Prince | Horatio, Horatio is announcing or saying hamlet has died. act 5 scene 2 line 397 |
| Fragility, they name is woman! | Hamlet, describes all of womankind as frail and weak in character. act 1 scene 2 line 150 |
| Something is rotten in the state of Denmark | Marcellus, corrupt on our situation in which something is wrong |