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Vocabulary Word	Context Sentence	Context Clue	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
1. auspicious (adj.)	"Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen...have we...with an auspicious and a dropping eye...with dirge in marriage...taken to wife" (1.2.8-14).
2. impotent (adj.)	"[The king of] Norway...impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears of this his nephew's purpose" (1.2.28-30).
3. beseech (v.)	"He hath, my lord, wring from me my slow leave by laborsome petition...I do beseech you give him leave to go" (1.2.58-61).
4. dejected (adj.)	"It isn't just my black suit...nor shedding a river full of tears...nor the dejected [be]havior of the visage...that can denote me truly" (1.2.77- 83).
5. commendable (adj.)	"'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, to give these mourning duties to your father" (1.2.87-88).

Vocabulary Word	Context Sentence	Context Clue	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
6. obsequious (adj.)	"You must know that your father lost a father...and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow" (1.2.89- 92).
7. obstinate (adj.)	"To persever in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness" (1.2.92- 94).
8. vulgar (adj.)	"For what we know must be and is as common as any the most vulgar thing to sense, why should we in our peevish opposition take it to heart?" (1.2.98-101).
9. truant (adj.)	"Hamlet: But what, in faith make you from [school at] Wittenberg?" "Horatio: A truant disposition, good my lord" (1.2.168-169).
10. tenable (adj.)	"I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still" (1.2.246-248).

Vocabulary Word	Context Sentence	Context Clue	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
11. calumny (n.)	"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes...and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent"(1.3.38-42)
12. libertine (n.)	"Do not...show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine [you] the primrose path of dalliance treads" (1.3.47-50)
13. censure (v.)	"Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment" (1.3.69)
14. importune (v.)	"My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honorable fashion" (1.3.110-111).
15.  scant (adj.)	"From this time be something scanter of your maiden presence. Set your entreatments at a higher rate than a command to parley" (1.4.120-123).

Vocabulary Word	Context Sentence	Context Clue	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
16. beguile (v.)	"Do not believe his vows, for they are...show...the better to beguile" (1.3.127-131)
17.  render (v.)	"My hour is almost come, when I to sulf'rous and tormenting flames must render up myself" (1.5.2-4)
18. enmity (n.)	"The [poison] holds such an enmity with blood of man that it courses through [the blood and solidifies it like] curd" (1.5.65-69).
19. contrive (v.)	"But howsomever thou pursues this act, taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother...Leave her to heaven" (1.5.85-86).
20. pernicious (adj.)	"O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!" (1.5.105-106).

Hamlet Act Two Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary Word	Context Structure	Context Clues	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
Wanton	"What forgeries you please. Marry, none so rank as may dishonor him. Take heed of that. But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips As are companions noted and most known To youth and liberty" (Line 22)
Incontinency	"You must not put another scandal on him That he is open to incontinency. That's not my meaning. But breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty, The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimèd blood, Of general assault." (Line 30)
Sullies	"You, laying these slight sullies on my son As 'twere a thing a little soiled i' th' working- Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound... " (line 40)
Brothel	""I saw him enter such a house of sale"- Videlicet a brothel, or so forth." (line 60)
Windlasses	"And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. So by my former lecture and advice Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?" (Line 65)
Doublet	"My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled" (line 78)
Beshrew	"I had not quoted him. I feared he did but trifle And meant to wreck thee. But beshrew my jealousy!" (line 113)
Discretion	"As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king. This must be known, which, being kept close, might move More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Come." (line 117)
Vouchsafe	"And since so neighbored to his youth and 'havior, That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time so by your companies" (line 13)
Entreaty	"Both your majesties Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty." (line 29)
Impotence	"Whereat grieved- That so his sickness, age, and impotence Was falsely borne in hand-sends out arrests On Fortinbras, which he, in brief, obeys, Receives rebuke from Norway" (line 66)
Dominions	"With an entreaty, herein further shown, That it might please you to give quiet pass Through your dominions for this enterprise, On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down" (line 78)
Expostulate	"This business is well ended. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit" (line 86)
Brevity	"Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit" (line 86)
Soliciting	"This in obedience hath my daughter shown me, And more above, hath his solicitings, As they fell out by time, by means, and place, All given to mine ear." (line 118)
Prescripts	"And then I prescripts gave her, that she should lock herself from his resort, Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice" (line 142)
Declension	"Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves And all we mourn for" (line 149)
Arras	"Be you and I behind an arras then, Mark the encounter." (line 163)
Pregnant	" How pregnant sometimes his replies are." (line 206)
Contrive	" I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter." (line 210)
Firmament	"look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire-why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors" (line 285)
Quintessence	"The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." (line 291)
Paragon	"The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" (line 291)
Rapiers	" These are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages-so they call them-that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills and dare scarce come thither." (line 336)
Appurtenance	"Th' appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me comply with you in this garb-lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you, must show fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment than yours." (line 362)

Hamlet Act Three Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary Word	Context Structure	Context Clues	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
Visage (noun)	"Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,-- 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself"
Consummation (noun)	"That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;"
Orisons (noun)	"And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd"
Paradox (noun)	"Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once."
Calumny (noun)	"be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell."
Temperance (noun)	"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
Buffets (noun)	"A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please"
Purging (verb)	"Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd for his passage?"
Bulwark (noun)	"If damned custom have not brass'd it so That it is proof and bulwark against sense."
Mandate (noun)	"Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery."

Hamlet Act Four Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary Word	Context Structure	Context Clues	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
Importunate	"She is importunate, indeed distract: Her mood will needs be pitied."
Conjectures	"Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds."
Inter	"In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts"
Pestilent	"And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death; Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear."
Superfluous	"O my dear Gertrude, this, Like to a murdering-piece, in many places Gives me superfluous death."
Impetuous	"The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers."
Incensed	"Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. Speak, man"
Mortal	"So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratch'd withal"
Obscure	"His means of death, his obscure funeral-- No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, No noble rite nor formal ostentation-- Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, That I must call't in question."
Requite	"Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease, Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise Requite him for your father."

Hamlet Act Five  Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary Word	Context Structure	Context Clues	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
Heathen	"What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' could he dig without arms?"
Mason	"What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"
Indenture	"will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?"
Flagon	"A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester"
Abhor	"he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it."
Gibe	"Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"
Imperious	"Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!"
Betoken	"This doth betoken The corse they follow did with desperate hand Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate. Couch we awhile, and mark."
Profane	"We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls."
Requiem	"To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls."
Churlish	"I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling."
Yeoman	"It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote?"
Tributary	"As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear"
Insinuation	"Does by their own insinuation grow: 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites."
Canker	"To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd, To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?"
Perdition	"Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail."
Infallible	"Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him."