Hamlet vocab

7 Written Questions

1. the top of the head
2. individuals or groups competing against each other
3. extravagant self-praise
4. (n.) great merriment
5. devoted to a cause or party
6. waste parts of a butchered animal; refuse; garbage
7. cause to become awake or conscious

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (v) make less severe or harsh
   1. mitigate
   2. moiety
   3. mirth
   4. pate
2. mental ability
   1. mirth
   2. wit
   3. moiety
   4. pate
3. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
   a difficult situation
   1. mirth
   2. sharked
   3. quagmire
   4. pate
4. all future generations
   1. rouse
   2. moiety
   3. posterity
   4. pate
5. get worse, go backwards
   1. retrograde
   2. tenable
   3. mitigate
   4. rouse
6. an utterance made by exhaling audibly
   1. pate
   2. partisan
   3. posterity
   4. suspiration

6 True/False Questions

1. moiety → one of two (approximately) equal parts

   True        False

2. sheeted → creeper; (v) one who preys on others

   True        False

3. obsequious → tendons or connective tissues

   True        False

4. tenable → based on sound reasoning or evidence

   True        False

5. sinews → tendons or connective tissues

   True        False

6. sharked → creeper; (v) one who preys on others

   True        False