Honors Brit Lit Hamlet Vocab 1

Apparition

ghost

Beguile

to influence of trickery

Calumny

A false statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something

Canker

a source of corruption

Cerements

the grave clothes or shroud used to wrap a dead body for burial

Countenance

A person's face or facial expression

Common

having no special distinction or quality or vulgar

Condole

to express sympathetic sorrow

Harbinger

to give a warning or prediction of

Harrow

to torment, distress, or lacerate someone

Imminent

ready to take place or happening soon

Impious

lacking in reverence or proper respect

Importune

to press or urge with the troublesome persistence

 Obsequious

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Pernicious

highly damaging or destructive often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

Plausible

superficially pleasing or persuasive

Portentous

something that acts as a sign or warning of a future event, usually something bad, serious, or momentous

Posthaste

with all possible speed quickly happening now

Prodigal

characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure

Retrograde

to go back over or recapulate something

Rummage

to make a through search or investigation

Sepulcher

a place of burial

Tenable

capable of being held, maintained, or defended

Traduce

to express to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation

Wanton

actions that are uncontrolled, reckless, excessively indulgent, or sexually unrestrained, often implying a lack of discipline