Hamlet Flashcards

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Abate

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To reduce in intensity or amount.

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Abridge

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To shorten; diminish

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3
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Adulterate

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To make impure by adding lesser substances

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Apprehend

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To seize, arrest or take into custody

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Bestial

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Brutality lacking reason; savagery

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Brazen

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Shameless, insolent, disrespectful

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Boisterous

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Rowdy, rough, stormy

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Bulwark

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A strong defense or something that defends

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Carnal

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Marked by crude and frank sexuality

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Celestial

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Pertaining to the sky or heavens

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Chide

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To voice disapproval or scold

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13
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Circumscribed

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Restricted or limited

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Circumvent

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To get around something; outwit

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15
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Clemency

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Leniency

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16
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Communal

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Pertaining to a group or community

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion drawn or deduced by guesswork

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Dexterous

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Skillful and active with the hands; manually adroit and skillful

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Diligent

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Characterized by steady, earnest, and attentive effort in a pursuit or study

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Discord

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Lack of agreement; tension or strife

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21
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Discretion

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Ability to act on one’s own power of individual decision

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22
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Emulate

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To try to equal or be like; to copy someone

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Enmity

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Hatred or intense dislike

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Entreaty

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A plea or earnest request

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Extant
Still in existence
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Extol
To praise or glorify
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Felicitous
Happy or delighted
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Fetter
To restrict by shackling or chaining
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Forestalled
Prevented or delayed beforehand
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Galling
Very irritating
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Gambol
To playfully leap or skip
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Germane
Important to the issue at hand, pertinent
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Gratis
Free
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Homage
A reverential regard; respect shown by external action
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Impetuous
Violent, hasty, rash, or impulsive
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Infallible
Incapable of error
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Ingenuity
Cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness
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Insolence
Insulting or contemptuous behavior
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Inter
To deposit a dead body into a grave
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Jaded
Weary from overuse
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Lament
To mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative manner
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Loathe
To detest or abhor
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Oblivion
A state of being forgotten
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Obsequious
Overly attentive or servile
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Obstinate
Unyielding regardless of reason or logic
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Ostentatious
Showy or pretentious
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Paragon
A model of excellence or perfection
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Partisan
One who exhibits extreme and possibly blind allegiance to a group or cause
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Peevish
Fretful or obstinate
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Perdition
Eternal damnation; under ruin
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Pernicious
Very destructive; harmful; deadly
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Peruse
To read or examine
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Pithy
Concise and meaningful
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Portent
A sign of forewarning
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Precept
A rule guiding conduct or imposing a standard
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Prescursor
Something that come before; a forerunner
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Prodigal
Wasteful; a person given to extravagance
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Promontory
Land or rock projecting into a body of water
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Profane
Showing contempt toward sacred things or ideas
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Reconcile
To reestablish friendship; to resolve a dispute
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Resolute
Characterized by a decided purpose
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Replicate
To repeat, copy, or duplicate
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Requite
To make repayment or return
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Sanctify
To set apart for sacred use, to make holy; to purify
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Shrill
A high pitched or shrieking sound
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Spurn
To reject or reuse with hostility
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Superfluous
Beyond what is needed or required; an overflow
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Traducer
One who slanders or speaks falsely about someone
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Turbulence
Wild or disrupting activity
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Valid
Well-grounded or justifiable
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Vulnerable
Susceptible to injury or attack
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Wan
Very pale or sickly
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Wanton
Immoral or lewd
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Warranted
Justified
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Whets
Stimulates; sharpens