Quizlet Twelfth Night Vocabulary

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  1. Amulet: An object worn, especially around the neck, as a charm against evil or injury
  2. Angelica: The dible stem, leaf, or root of an herb in the parsley family
  3. Antagonist: The principle character in opposition to the hero of a narrative or drama
  4. Bergamot: Oil from a small tree grown in Italy; used extensively in soaps and perfume
  5. Bohemian: A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards or behaviors
  6. Boisterous: Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
  7. Bubonic Plague: A contagious, often fatal epidemic disease caused by bacteria, transmitted from person to person or by the bites of fleas from an infected rodent
  8. Chastity: Abstaining from sexual relations(because of religious vows)
  9. Commerce: The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale
  10. Conspicuous Consumption: The acquisition and display of expensive items to attract attention to one's wealth or to suggest that one is wealthy
  11. Corporal Punishment: Punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment
  12. Disseminate: To scatter widely
  13. Dour: Marked by sterness or harshness
  14. Entourage: A group of attendants or associates
  15. Grammar School: Second level of schooling during the Elizabethan Era that prepares students for university
  16. Haughtily: Proudly
  17. Heresy: A controversial or unorthodox opinion or doctrine, as in politics, philosophy, or science
  18. Housewifery: The function or duties of a housewife; housekeeping
  19. Nobleman: Persons possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development
  20. Page: A boy who acted as a knight's attendant
  21. Petty School: The most elementary level of schooling in the Elizabethan Era where students learned to read and write in English and do basic arithmetic
  22. Prose: Ordinary speech or writing, without metric structure
  23. Prude: One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous
  24. Puritan: A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries advocated strict religious discipline along with simplification of the ceremonies and creeds of the church of England
  25. Rigging: Use of ropes, chains or cables to hang equipment used in theater production
  26. Royal Patronage: Financial support and encouragement from the monarch, king or crown.
  27. Salve: Something that soothes or heals; a balm
  28. Sonnet: A 14 line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes
  29. Steward: One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs
  30. Stricture: A restraint, limit, or restriction
  31. Visceral: Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation