Much Ado About Nothing: Act 4 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charge | command |
| Learn | teach |
| Approved | proved, convict |
| Common stale | lowest-class prostitute |
| Much misgovernment | great immorality |
| Outward graces | external beauties |
| Mired | soiled |
| Is belied | has been lied about |
| Grace | goodness, virtue |
| Misprision | misunderstanding, error |
| Publish | proclaim |
| Monument | sepulcher, burial vault |
| Prize | esteem, value |
| Reclusive | cloistered |
| Inwardness | close friendship |
| Presently | at once |
| Protest | declare |
| Undone | destroyed |
| Engaged | committed, pledged |
| Bear thee | conduct yourself |
| coy | distant, disdainful |
| wild | rebellious, not submitting to control |
| couch | lie down |
| fair-faced | of fair complexion, or beautifully featured |
| honest slanders | malicious statements that do not, however, attack chastity |
| name | reputation |
| limed | trapped like a bird in a birdlime |
| haps | chance, accident |
| methinks | it seems to me |
| wants | lacks |
| fancy | love |
| the old ornament of his cheek | his beard |
| civet | perfume |
| heavy | serious, grave |
| e'en | afternoon (literally,evening) |
| discover | reveal |
| constable | chief watchman |
| true | honest |
| ducats | gold coins |
| rarely | excellently |
| qualm | illness |
| action | battle |
| name | fame, reputation |
| stomach | both appetite and courage |
| squarer | fighter, quarreler |
| would | wish |
| sad | serious |
| dumb | mute, speechless |
| methinks | it seems to me |
| affect | like |
| break with | reveal (the matter) to |
| salved | explained; or, smoothed over |
| reveling | masked dancing |
| tartly | sour |
| my lady's eldest son | pampered boy |
| ill | bad |
| jester | professional fool, who makes his living by entertaining his aristocratic patron |
| break with | speak to, resolve |
| base | unworthy, dispicable |
| harpy | sharp-tongued woman |
| wherefore | why |
| come by | acquire |
| cross | impede, block |
| cozened | tricked, treated |
| term | call |
| tabor | small drum, used with a tabor-pipe to accompany dancing |
| grace | favor |
| tax | order, challenge |
| note | take notice of |
| bonny | smiling, bright |
| stalk on | pursue or prey stealthily |
| counterfeit | pretend |
| discovers | reveals, shows |
| dotage | excessive love |
| sport | joke, jest |
| conference | conversation |
| sadly borne | seriously conducted |
| stomach | appetite |
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