1. Hamlet Vocabulary Act 1

2. Do Now: 1)Have Vocabulary Definitions out on your desks 2)Develop five sentences using five different vocabulary words Today: Review Vocab Continue with Act 1 Scene 5-Act 2 Scene 1

3. Usurp (VERB) To seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take on as ones right or possession. SYN: Conquer ANT: Surrender “What art thou that usurp’st this time of night…”

4. Hallowed (ADJECTIVE) Worthy of religious veneration SYN: Holy, sacred ANT: Desecrated “No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,/ So hallow’d and gracious is the time”

5. Auspicious (ADJECTIVE) Conducive to success; favorable SYN: Advantageous, opportune ANT: unpromising “Have we as ‘twere with a defeated joy.--/ with an auspicious and a dropping eye,/ with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole,--/ Taken to wife”

6. Filial (ADJECTIVE) relating to or having to do with an offspring SYN: Familial ANT: None “That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound,/ In filial obligation for some term/ to do obsequious sorrow”

7. Obsequious (ADJECTIVE) attentive in a servile manner SYN: Obedient, Compliant, Enslaved ANT: Assertive, Brazen “That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound,/ In filial obligation for some term/ to do obsequious sorrow”

8. Retrograde Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to previous direction SYN: Receding, Reversed ANT: Forward, Positive “For your intent/ In going back to school in Wittenberg,/ It is most retrograde to our desire”

9. Discourse (NOUN) A verbal expression in speech or writing; conversation SYN: Communication, discussion ANT: Quiet, Silence “O, God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason,/ Would have mourn’d longer…”

10. Juxtaposition (noun): The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings or phrases, or words side by side or in a similar narrative movement for the purpose of comparison, contrast, suspense, or character development.

11. Foil (noun): A foil is a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight various features of the other character’s personality, throwing these characteristics into sharper focus.

12. Misogyny (NOUN) the hatred or dislike of women or girls SYN: Sexism, Chauvinism ANT: Philogyny, Misandry

13. Truant (Adjective, or Noun) to be absent without permission SYN: hooky, cutting class ANT: Present “A truant disposition my lord”

14. Countenance (NOUN) the appearance conveyed by a person’s face SYN: demeanor, visage, face, features ANT:NONE

15. Adulterate (Verb, Adjective) to mix or mixed with impurities SYN: Contaminate ANT: to improve “Ay, that incestuous and adulterate beast”

16. Pernicious (Adjective) Exceedingly harmful SYN: damaging, Dangerous ANT: beneficial “O most pernicious woman!”

17. Antic (Adjective) a ludicrously odd act SYN: joke Ant:NONE “As chance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on”