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anglais 3 Flashcards

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Fatal loins

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Fateful, unfortunate, offspring

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Dignity

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Rank or title

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Star-cross’lovers

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Lovers destined to an unhappy fate

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I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them if they bear it

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Italian insult, provocative, probably obscene gesture

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True shift

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Confession

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Pernicious

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Exceedingly harmful

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Suit

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The act of wooing, courtship

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Sirrah

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A contemptuous term of address, here used to indicate the difference in social status between Capulet and his servant

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He’s a man of wax

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He’s perfect, without fault, like a wax figure

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Queen Mab

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A fairy queen who controls people’s dream

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Wherefore

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Why

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Enmity

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Hatred, hostility

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Fain

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Gladly

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Distempered

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Feverish

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Hie

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Go quickly, hurry

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Commend me

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Convey my respects

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Drudge

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A person who does hard, menial and tedious work

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Fray

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Fight

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By the book

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According to the rules

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All naught

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All wicked

Evil, naughty

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All dissemblers

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All liars

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Aqua vitae

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Alcoholic spirits, brandy

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Beguiled

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Tricked

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Phoebus

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Sun god

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Validity

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Value or worth

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Banished

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Exiled

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Dispute

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Discuss

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Ado

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Fuss, trouble, excitement

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By and by

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Soon

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Fortune

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Destiny

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Jocund

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Merry

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Lark

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A morning song bird

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Shroud

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Burial cloth

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Culled

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Picked out, selected

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Distraught

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Crazed

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Loggerhead

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A stupid fellow, blockhead. Capulet puns in the second servants ability to find logs for the fire

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Deflowered by him

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Having lost her virginity to him

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Presage

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Predict, forecast

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My bosoms lord

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Love

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Penury

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Extreme poverty

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Apothecary

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Druggist, pharmacist, chemist

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Searchers of the town

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Health officers whose duty it was to view dead bodies and report the cause of death

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Crow

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Crowbar

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Obsequies

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Funeral rites

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Keepers

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Guard, as of prisoners

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Rust

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Corruption, decay

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Glooming peace

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Peace overshadowed with grief

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Unsavory

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Foul-tasting

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Inauspicious

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Ill-omened, doomed

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Inexorable

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Relentless

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Profaners

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Those who have irreverence for what is sacred

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Pernicious

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Evil, whicked

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Portentuous

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Foreboding

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Posterity

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Future generation

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Languish

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Weaken, be kept in an unpleasant situation

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Heretics

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Non-conformist

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Esteem

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Regard with Respect

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Obscured

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Hard to see

Indistincly heard, faint

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Boisterous

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To make something already developed greater

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Alderman

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Member of an English county

Legislative body

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Purged

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Purify

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Loathe

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Detest, hate

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Augmenting

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Rough and stormy, violent

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Invocation

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Incantation used in conjuring

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Envious

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Feeling envy

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Discourse

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To narrate discuss

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Impute

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To Attribute, credit

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Chide

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To express disapproval

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Rancor

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Mutual hatred

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Lamentable

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Express grief about something

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Appertaining

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Well grounded

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Consort

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Companion

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Mantle

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Cloak

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Tedious

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Moving slowly

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Beguiled

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Deceived by guile

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Validity

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To belong as a proper function or part

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Abhors

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Reject vehemently

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Beseech

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To request earnestly

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Prorogue

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Discontinue a session

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Arbitrating

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To submit to settlement or judgement by arbitration

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Orisons

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Prayer

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Culled

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To gather and collect

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Dirges

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A funeral hymn or lament

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Presage

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Omen

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Penury

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Destitution

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Impeach

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Try to dis credit

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Thou

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You subjective

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Thee

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You objective like him

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Thy/thine

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Your

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Present tense ending

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2-3 p. Sing.
Est
Eth

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You have

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Thou art

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Vous etes

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Ye are

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You have

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Thou hast

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She has

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He she it hath

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Vous avez

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Ye have

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A’

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He

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Alas

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Interjection of sadness

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Anon

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Now, soon, instantly

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Art

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Are

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Ay

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Yes

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Beseech

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Beg

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Bid

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Ask request

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Chide

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Scold

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Dar’st

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Dare

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Doth

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Do, does

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Durst

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Dared

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Ere

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Before

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E’en

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Even

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E’er

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Ever

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Fain

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Gladly

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Fare

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You well good bye

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Gi’

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Give

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Ha’

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Have

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Hath/hast

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Has have

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Hence

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From this place or time, there

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Hither

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To this place

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Hitherto

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Until now

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Ho

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Expression of surprise
Exclamation
Used to call for attention

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I’

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In

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Naught

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Nothing

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Ne’er oft

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Never often

121
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Prithee

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I pray thee

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‘S

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Us

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Sham’st

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Are ashamed

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Sleep’st

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Sleeps

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Soft

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Quiet

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Sup

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To eat supper

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‘T

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It

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Th’

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The

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Thrice

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Three times

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‘Tis

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It is

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'’Twas

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It was

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‘Tween

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Between

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‘T were

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It were

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Whe’er

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Whenever

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Whit

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A bit or piece

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Withal

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With

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Without

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Can mean outside

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Yea

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Yes

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It’s Greek to me

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Julius Ceasar

You do not know or understand something

140
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Fair play

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The tempest

Follow the rules especially in sport

141
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All that glitters isn’t gold

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Merchant if Venice

After we discover the fact that something that look good turns out not so good

142
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Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeves

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Otello

To be a hopeless romantic who’s open about his feelings

143
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Break the ice

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When you meet someone you break the ice by asking some simple question about himself

144
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The lady doth protest to much

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If someone denies something more than once you can say it meaning you think that they feel the opposite way
Hamlet

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Clothes make the man

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Hamlet

Although not always true, how people dresses tells something about who they are as a person

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A laughing stock

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To be considered a joke by many person

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Too much of a good thing

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It is said that […] (food, money,) is not necessarily good for you

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In a pickle

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The tempest

To be in trouble or in a situation you can not get out from easily

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