Othello Vocab All Acts

Bombast

puffed-up; pompous

Preferment

promotion

obsequious

fawning; showing servile compliance

grange

farm; granary

lascivious

lecherous

deluding

deceiving

promulgate

officially announce

beguiled

diverted; taken away; also charmed or delighted

alacrity

eagerness; quickness

surfeited

fed to excess

tempest

violent storm

base

common; low in station

satiety

the condition of being overfilled or overgratified

requisites

requirements

impediment

something in the way; a hindrance

egregiously

conspicuously offensively

perdition

total ruin; damnation

shrift

confessional

beseech

earnestly request

wooed

courted, dated

conspire

secretly plot

importunity

repeated requests

castigation

punishment; criticism

advocation

a cause or a path of actions

suborned

induced to commit a bad action or perjury

credulous

gullible

reproach

criticism; disgrace; blame; shame

wit

intelligence; humor

iniquity

sin(s)

expostulate

reason earnestly

mandate

command; official instruction

bawdy

vulgar; humorously coarse

insinuating

introducing an idea subtlety

incontinent

uncontrolled; unrestrained

mars

damages; marks

peril

danger

anon

soon

fie

used to express distaste or disapproval

linger

to be slow in learning

pernicious

deadly; destructive

gratify

reward; indulge; satisfy

trifle

something of little importance or value

dismayed

having lost courage

malice

spite; ill-will