Collection 5: Why Read Shakespeare?

As you read Michael Mack's "Why Read Shakespeare?" learn this word list.Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 5: Why Read Shakespeare?, Macbeth, Act 1, Macbeth, Act 2, Macbeth, Act 3, Macbeth, Act 4, Macbeth, Act 5, Holinshed's Chronicles, The Macbeth Murder Mystery
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  1. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
  2. truncate
    make shorter as if by cutting off
  3. folio
    a book consisting of large sheets of folded paper
  4. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  5. contemporary
    occurring in the same period of time
  6. parable
    a short moral story
  7. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  8. fascist
    relating to authoritarian hierarchical government
  9. dictator
    a ruler who is unconstrained by law
  10. phantasmagoric
    characterized by fantastic and incongruous imagery
  11. complexity
    the quality of being intricate and compounded
  12. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  13. integrated
    formed or united into a whole
  14. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  15. hypothesis
    a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
Created on Thu Jul 17 11:23:32 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:22:40 EDT 2014)

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