Julius Caesar Vocab

(D) is definition, (S) is used in sentence

Taper (D)

candle

Taper (S)

“Get me a ____ in my study, Lucius . . .”

General (D)

common good

General (S)

“But for the _____. He would be crown’d:”

Adder (D)

poisonous snake

Adder (S)

“It is the bright day that brings forth the _____”

Proof (D)

fact

Proof (S)

“More than his reason. But ‘tis a common _____”

Augmented (D)

multiplied, expanded

Augmented (S)

“Fashion it thus; that what he is, ____”

Exhalations (D)

meteors

Exhalations (S)

“The _____ whizzing in the air”

Whet (D)

urge, provoke

Whet (S)

“Since Cassius first did ____ me against Caesar,”

Interim (D)

gaps, lulls

Interim (S)

“And the first motion, all the ____ is”

Phantasma (D)

a dream

Phantasma (S)

“Like a _____, or a hideous dream”

Genius (D)

soul

Genius (S)

“The ____ and the mortal instruments”

Insurrection (D)

revolt, revolution, civil disobediance

Insurrection (S)

“Like to a little kingdom, suffers then. The nature of an ______”

Moe (D)

more

Moe (S)

“No sir, there are ____ with him”

Favour (D)

feature

Favour (S)

“That by no means I may discover them. By any mark of _____”

Visage (D)

face

Visage (S)

“To mask thy monstrous ____? Seek none, conspiracy:”

Affability (D)

generosity, compassion

Affability (S)

“Hide it in smiles and ______”

Semblance (D)

appearance, manner

Semblance (S)

“For if thou path, thy native _____ on, Not Erebus itself were dim enouch . . . “

Prick (D)

prompt, encourage

Prick (S)

“To ___ us to redress? what other bond . . .”

Palter (D)

hesitate, quibble

Palter (S)

“And will not ____? and what other oath . . .”

Cautelous (D)

dishonest, insincere

Cautelous (S)

“Swear priests and cowards and men _____.”

Carrions (D)

corpses, mild curse

Carrions (S)

“Old feeble ___ and such suffering souls”

Insuppressive (D)

prompting, instigating, encouraging

Insuppressive (S)

“Nor the _____ mettle of our spirits”

Bastardy (D)

bastards, born illegitimately

Bastardy (S)

“Is guilt of a several _____, If he do break the smallest particle . . .”

Contriver (D)

schemer

Contriver (S)

“A shrewd _____, and, you know, his means”

Envy (D)

malevolence

Envy (S)

“Like wrath in death and ____ afterwards”

Hew (D)

hack, chop

Hew (S)

“Not ____ him as a a carcass fit for hounds”

Ingrafted (D)

faithful

Ingrafted (S)

“For in the ____ love he bears to Caesar”

Augurers (D)

soothsayers, prohpets

Augurers (S)

“And the persuasion of his ______”

Uttermost (D)

latest

Uttermost (S)

“By the eight hour: is that the _____?”

Wafture (D)

wave

Wafture (S)

“But, with and angry _____ of your hand”

Contagion (D)

plague, affliction, ailment

Contagion (S)

“To dare the ____ of the night”

Rheumy (D)

causing rheumatism

Rheumy (S)

“And tempt the ___ and unpurged air”

Unpurged (D)

foul, contaminated

Unpurged (S)

“And tempt the rheumy and _____ air”

Charactery (D)

writing

Charactery (S)

“All the ____ of my sad brows”

Success (D)

what occurred

Success (S)

“And bring me their opinions of ______”

Ague (D)

fever, illness

Ague (S)

“As that same ___ which hath made you lean.”

Yearns (D)

aches, suffers

Yearns (S)

“The heart of Brutus ____ to think upon!”

Contrive (D)

devise, concoct

Contrive (S)

“If not, the Fates with traitors do _____”

Rumour (D)

noise

Rumour (S)

“I heard a bustling ____, like a fray”

Fray (D)

vicious fight or brawl

Fray (S)

“I heard a bustling rumour, like a ____”

Sirrah (D)

sir

Sirrah (S)

“______ give place”

Puissant (D)

poweful

Puissant (S)

“Most high, most mighty, and most ______ Caesar,”

Couchings (D)

bows

Couchings (S)

“These _____ and these lowly courtesies”

Children (D)

childlike ways

Children (S)

“Into the law of _____. Be not fond,”

Fond (D)

unwise, witless

Fond (S)

Into the law of children. Be not ____,

Cur (D)

dog

Cur (S)

I spurn thee like a ______ out of my way.”

Apprehensive (D)

ruled by imagination

Apprehensive (S)

“And men are flesh and blood, and _________”

Bootless (D)

in vain

Bootless (S)

“Doth not Brutus _____ kneel?”

Knot (D)

group

Knot (S)

“So often shall the _____ of us be call’d”

Rank (D)

infected, ailing

Rank (S)

“Who else must be let blood, who else is _____”

Modesty (D)

control, self-restraint

Modesty (S)

“Then, in a friend, it is cold _____”