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Antony and Cleopatra(Shakespeare) Vocab
pre-selected words from Shakespeare's play, Antony and Cleopatra
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Literature
12th Grade
09/02/2009
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Abode
 Definition
staying
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Abstract
 Definition
the shortening of distance
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Allay
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qualify
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Angle
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fishing pole
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Anticked
 Definition
transformed into caricatures
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Article
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terms
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Aspic
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asp
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Aught
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anything
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Auguring
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prophesying
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Avaunt
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be gone
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Avoid
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go
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Bands
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lines of troops
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Banquet
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light refreshment of fruit & wine
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Barked
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stripped of its bark (and thus killed)
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Battery
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beating or pounding; an assault
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Battle
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battalion
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Becomings
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graces
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Beggary
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state of extreme poverty
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Begger'd
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made to seem inadequate
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Bellows and the fan
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devices used to produce currents of air intended to alternately to feed fires or for cooling, although either might be used for either function
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Best heads
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commanding officers
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Blasted
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withered, blighted
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Blown
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having bloomed and withered
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Blown
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deposited, injected
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Body
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corpse
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Boggler
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fickle, inconstant person
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Bourn
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limit or boundary
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Branchless
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bare of honors, like a tree with no branches
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Brave
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splendid
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Broached
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brought up for discussion or debate
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Burgonet
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light helmet or steel cap (it signifies defense as "arm" signifies offence)
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Cantle
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segment of a circle
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Celerity
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swiftness
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Chafe
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rage
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Charge
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cost
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Charm
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enchantress
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Chide
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to rebuke, to scold
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Chronicle
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place in history
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Chuck
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literally "chick", a term of endearment
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circle of the Ptolemies
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the crown of the kings of Egypt
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cistern
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tank for catching and storing rainwater
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Clip
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hold, clasp
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Cloth-of-gold of tissue
 Definition
cloth with gold threads woven through it
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Cloy
 Definition
to cause distaste or disgust, usually by supplying too much of what was initially pleasant
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Cloyless
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that which will not satiate or satisfy
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Colour
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pretext
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Common Body
 Definition
general populace
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Companion me
 Definition
provide as my attendant
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Composition
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mutual agreement
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confound
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waste, ruin
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confound
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waste, ruin
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Consideration
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self-reflection
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Continent
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container
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Countenance
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bearing; demeanor (i.e. they changed day to night by sleeping through it)
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Course
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to set a course after
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Crescent
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increasing
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Crowns and Crownets
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kings and princes
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Cut
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disaster or misfortune
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Declined
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brought low as I am
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Demi-Atlas
 Definition
one who supports half the weight of the world (Antony and Octavius each support half)
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denounced
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declared
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Discandying
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melting
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Dislimns
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to make a picture obscure
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Disponge
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fall in drops, as from a sponge
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Disposed
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inclined
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Do his kind
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act according to his nature
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Dodge and palter
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shuffle and beg
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Doff't
 Definition
remove it
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