Hamlet: Act 1 Vocabulary

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Assail (1.1.37)

to attack vigorously, assault

Avouch (1.1.67)

declare or assert with positiveness; assume responsibility for

Usurp (1.1.54)

to seize by force; to employ wrongfully; use without authority

Moiety (1.1.102)

a half, a part

Portentous (1.1.121)

ominously significant

Probation (1.1.171)

the act of testing

Auspicious (1.2.11)

promising success, fortunate

Obsequious (1.2.96)

dutiful, as required by funeral rites

Jocund (1.2.129)

cheerful, merry

Canon/ized (1.3.52)

the body of rules, principles, or standards

Reckoning (1.4.85)

the settlement of accounts

Pernicious (1.4.112)

injurious, hurtful; deadly, fatal

Antic (1.4.192)

a playful trick or ludicrous gesture

Disposition (1.4.192)

inclination or state of mind