AP Lit Hamlet Act 1 Vocab

Vocabulary on the need to know list for Hamlet Act 1

Assail

To attack vigorously, assault

Avouch

Declare or assert with positiveness; assume responsibility for

Usurp

to seize by force; to employ wrongfully; use without authority

Moiety

A half, a part

Portentous

Ominously significant

Probation

The act of testing

Auspicious

Promising success, fortunate

Obsequious

duitful, as required by funeral rites

Jocund

cheerful, merry

Canon(ized)

the body of rules, principles, or standards

Reckoning

the settlement of accounts Pe

rnicious

injurious, hurtful; deadly, fatal

Antic

A playful trick or ludicrous gesture

Disposition

inclination or state of mind