Vocab List #8 (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Relent (v)

To give in. [Usage: 'Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield/ Thy crazed title to my certain right.' (I.i)]

vile (adj)

Of little worth or value. [Usage: 'Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.' (3.3.260-261)]

entreat (verb)

To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. [Usage: 'I do entreat your grace to pardon me.' (1.1.58)]

condole (v)

To express sympathy. [Usage: 'I will move storms, I will condole in some / measure…' (I.ii)]

vow (verb/noun)

Verb: Solemnly promise to do a specified thing. Noun: A solemn promise. [Usage: 'Look when I vow, I weep; and [in] vows so born…all truth appears.' (3.2.124-125)]

entice (v)

To attract, to lure. [Usage: 'Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?' (II. i)]

expound (v)

To state, or to explain in careful detail. [Usage: 'Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream' (IV. i)]

remedy (noun/verb)

Noun: A medicine or treatment for a disease or injury. Verb: Set right (an undesirable situation). [Usage: 'On the ground/ Sleep sound./I'll apply/To your eye,/Gentle lover remedy.' (3.2.448-452)]

discretion (n)

The trait of judging wisely and objectively; circumspection. [Usage: 'I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us' (V.i)]

cunning (n)

Crafty artfulness, especially in deception. [Usage: 'With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart' (I.i)]