Othello Vocab Sentences

Bombast

Adjective. Puffed up; pompous.

"But he, as loving his own pride and purposes / Evades them with a ________ circumstance" (Iago, Ii13-14).

Preferment

Noun. A Promotion.

"Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of 35 service, /_________ goes by letter and affection" (Iago, Ii38-39).

Obsequious

Adjective. Fawning; showing servile compliance.

"Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave / That, doting on his own __________ bondage / Wears out his time, much like his master's ass" (Iago, Ii48-50).

Grange

Noun. A farm.

"This is Venice. My house is not a ______" (Brabantio, Ii119).

Lascivious

Adjective. Lecherous.

"To the gross clasps of a __________ Moor" (Roderigo, Ii141).

Deluding

Verb. Deceiving.

"Let loose on me the justice of the state / For thus ____________ you" (Roderigo, Ii154-155).

Promulgate

Verb. To officially announce.

"Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, / I shall ____________" (Othello, Iii23-24).

Beguiled

Adjective or verb (past tense). Charmed; delighted; diverted.

"Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding / Hath thus ___________ your daughter of herself (Duke, Iiii78-79).

Alacrity

Noun. Eagerness; quickness.

"A natural and prompt ___________ / I find in hardness, and do undertake / This present wars against the Ottomites" (Iiii265-267).

Perdurable

Adjective. Long-lasting; eternal.

"I have professed me thy / friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving / with cables of ____________ toughness" (Iago, Iiii379-381).

Surfeited

Verb. Fed to excess.

"Therefore my hopes, not ____________ to death, / Stand in bold cure" (Cassio, IIi55-56).

Tempest

Noun. A violent storm.

"The desperate ________ hath so bang'd the Turks / That their designment halts" (Third Gentleman, IIi23-24).

Base

Adjective. Common, low in station.

"If / thou be'st valiant—as they say ______ men being in / love have then a nobility in their natures more / than is native to them—list me" (Iago, IIi235-238).

Satiety

Noun. The condition of being overfilled or over gratified.

"When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, / there should be, again to inflame it and to give / ________ a fresh appetite" (Iago, IIi248-250).

Requisites

Noun (plural). Requirements.

"Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all / those __________ in him that folly and green" (Iago, IIi267-269).

Impediment

Noun. Something in the way; hindrance.

"So / shall you have a shorter journey to your desires / by the means I shall then have to prefer them, / and the ____________ most profitably removed" (Iago, IIi298-301).

Egregiously

Adverb. Conspicuously offensive.

"Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me / For making him ______________ an ass" (Iago, IIi330-331).

Perdition

Noun. Total ruin; damnation.

"that upon certain tidings now arrived, / importing the mere __________ of the Turkish fleet" (Herald, IIii2-3).

Knave

Noun. An untrustworthy, dishonest person.

"A ________ teach me my duty! I'll beat the _______ / into a twiggen bottle" (Cassio, IIiii155-156).

Dilatory

Adjective. Tending to postpone or delay.

"Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft, / And wit depends on __________ time (Iago, IIiii393-394).

Shrift

Noun. Confessional.

"His bed shall seem a school, his board a _______" (Desdemona, IIIiii26).

Beseech

Verb. To earnestly request.

"Yet, I _________ you, / If you think fit, or that it may be done, / Give me advantage of some brief discourse / With Desdemona alone" Cassio, IIIii57-60).

Wooed

Verb (past tense). Courted; dated.

"Did Michael Cassio, / when you _______ my lady, Know of your love?" (Iago, IIIiii105-106).

Conspire

Verb. To secretly plot.

"Thou dost _________ against thy friend, Iago, / If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear / A stranger to thy thoughts" (Othello, IIIiii167-169)

Importunity

Noun. The state of being burdensome; overly persistent in request or demand.

"Note, if your lady strain his entertainment /

With any strong or vehement __________. / Much will be seen in that" (Iago, IIIiii291-293).

Castigation

Noun. A severe punishment or criticism.

"Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires / A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer / Much _____________, exercise devout" (Othello, IIIiv45-47).

Advocation

Noun. A cause or path of action.

"Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio! / My ____________ is not now in tune" (Desdemona, IIIiv141-142).

Suborned

Verb (past tense). Induced to commit a bad act or perjury.

"But now I find I had _________ the witness, / And he's indicted falsely" (Desdemona, IIIiv174-175).

Ruminate

Verb. To go over in the mind repeatedly often casually or slowly.

"As thou dost __________ , and give thy worst of /

thoughts / The worst of words" (Othello, IIIiii153-155).

Denoted

Verb (past tense). Made known; an indication of.

"But this ________ a foregone conclusion. / 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream" (Othello, IIIiii486-487).

Credulous

Adjective. Gullible; ready to believe on sight.

"Thus ____________ fools are / caught, / And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, / All guiltless, meet reproach" (Iago, IVi54-57).

Reproach

Noun. Criticism; disgrace; blame; shame.

"Thus credulous fools are / caught, / And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, / All guiltless, meet __________" (Iago, IVi54-57).

Wit

Noun. Intelligence; humor.

"O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! / Of so high and plenteous _____ and invention!" (Othello, IVi208-209).

Iniquity

Noun. Sin.

"If you are so fond over her ________, give her / patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes /

near nobody" (Iago, IVi216-218).

Expostulate

Verb. To reason earnestly.

"Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I'll not / ______________ with her, lest her body and beauty / unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago" (Othello, IVi223-225).

Mandate

Noun. A command; official instruction.

"Sir, I obey the ____________ / And will return to Venice" (Othello, IVi291-292).

Bawdy

Adjective. Obscene; lewd; vulgar.

"The _______ wind that kisses all it meets / Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth / And will not hear it" (Othello, IVii89-91).

Insinuating

Adjective or verb. Introducing an idea subtly.

"I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, / Some busy and _____________ rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office / Have not devised this slander" (Emilia, IVii153-156).

Incontinent

Adjective. Uncontrolled; unrestrained.

"He says he will return __________, / And hath commanded me to go to bed, / And bade me to dismiss you" (Desdemona, IViii13-15).

Abhor

Verb. To hate; to loathe.

"It does ________ me now I speak the word. / To do the act that might the addition earn, / Not the world's mass of vanity could make me" (Desdemona, IViii191-193).

Mar

Verb. to damage; to mark.

"It makes us, or it _____ us-think on that, / And fix most firm thy resolution" (Iago, Vi5-6).

Peril

Noun. Danger.

"That makes me ugly. And, besides, the Moor / May unfold me to him. There stand I in much ______. / No, he must die. Be it so. I hear him coming" (Iago, Vi21-23).

Anon

Adverb. At once, immediately.

"Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?- /

Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more _____" (Iago, Vi126-127).

Fie

Interjection. Used to express disgust or disapproval.

"O ____ upon thee, strumpet!" (Emilia, Vii142).

Linger

Verb. To be slow in leaving.

"I that am cruel am yet merciful. / I would not have thee ________ in thy pain" (Othello, Vii108-109).

Pernicious

Adjective. Deadly; destructive.

"If he say so, may his __________ soul / Rot half a grain a day!" (Emilia, Vii190-191).

Gratify

Verb. To reward; to indulge; to satisfy.

"And she did ________ his amorous works / With that recognizance and pledge of love / Which I first gave her" (Othello, Vii53-55).

Trifle

Noun. Something of little importance or value.

"More than indeed belong'd to such a ______, / He begg'd of me to steal it" (Emilia, Vii271-272).

Dismayed

Verb (past tense) or adjective. Having lost courage.

"Do you go back __________? 'Tis a lost fear. / Man but a rush against Othello's breast, / And he retires. Where should Othello go?" (Othello, Vii320-322).

Malice

Noun. Spite; ill-will.

"Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in ________" (Othello, Vii402-403).