Excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

In Act 3 of the comedy by William Shakespeare, characters fall under a spell, in love, and out of favor. This list is filled with insults thrown by Hermia and Helena.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Made You Laugh, Brothers, Pet Peeves, Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut, The Open Window, A Day's Work, They Have Yarns, Mooses, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?, The Power of Pets, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fear Busters
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  1. juggler
    a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity
    Oh me! You juggler!
  2. canker
    a fungal disease of woody plants that damages the bark
    you canker-blossom!
  3. thief
    a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else
    You thief of love!
  4. modesty
    formality and propriety of manner
    Have you no modesty, no maiden shame
  5. bashfulness
    feeling embarrassed due to modesty
    No touch of bashfulness?
  6. impatient
    restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
    What, will you tear
    Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
  7. counterfeit
    a copy that is represented as the original
    Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
  8. puppet
    a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
    Puppet? Why so? Ay, that way goes the game
  9. stature
    the height of a standing person
    Now, I perceive that she hath made compare
    Between our statures
  10. personage
    one whose actions and opinions have a strong impact
    And with her personage, her tall personage
  11. prevail
    prove superior
    she hath prevail'd with him
  12. esteem
    a feeling of delighted approval and liking
    And are you grown so high in his esteem
  13. dwarfish
    atypically small
    Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
  14. maypole
    a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
    How low am I, thou painted maypole?
  15. mock
    treat with contempt
    I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,
    Let her not hurt me
  16. shrewishness
    a nature given to nagging or scolding
    I have no gift at all in shrewishness
  17. cowardice
    the trait of lacking courage
    I am a right maid for my cowardice
Created on Wed Sep 16 00:34:53 EDT 2015 (updated Wed Sep 16 02:22:08 EDT 2015)

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