Honors Brit Lit Hamlet Vocab #2

 Arras

a rich tapestry hanging on the wall 

 Purport

appear or claim to something especially falsely 

Peruse

read something typically in a through or careful way just to look over something

 Vouchsafe

give or grant something or someone in a gracious or condescending manner 

Superfluous

unnecessary being especially through being more than enough 

 Declension

a condition of decline or moral deterioration 

 Envenom

 put poison or or into

 Battalion

a large body of troops ready for battle

 Paragon

a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality

 Obscure

not discovered or known about; unknown

 Chide

scold or rebuke

Mirth

amusement especially expressed in laughter

Visage

a person face with reference to the form or proportions of the features

 Quintessence

the most perfect or typically example of a quality or class

Commune

share ones intimate thoughts or feelings with someone especially on a spiritual level

Apoplexy

unconscious from a stroke or from a sudden bleeding

Piteous

deserving or arousing pity

Choler

ready disposition to irritation/anger

Assay

to judge the worth of

Arrant

being notoriously without moderation; being complete

Awry

off the correct or expected course

Melancholy

a state of sadness; depression of sprits

 Brevity

shortness of duration

Quietus

removal of an activity

Insolence

the quality of being insolent; rude or disrespectful behavior