Hamlet Vocabulary

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These words are found in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and have shown up on ACT and SAT tests.
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  1. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  2. abridge
    lessen, diminish, or curtail
  3. adulterate
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  4. afoot
    on foot; walking
  5. aloof
    distant, cold, or detached in manner
  6. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  7. antiquated
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  8. apprehend
    anticipate with dread or anxiety
  9. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  10. augury
    an event indicating important things to come
  11. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  12. baseness
    unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
  13. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  14. bestial
    resembling an animal, especially by being vicious or cruel
  15. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  16. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  17. bulwark
    an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  18. carnal
    of or relating to the body or flesh
  19. celestial
    relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
  20. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  21. chary
    characterized by great caution
Created on Thu Feb 11 10:20:42 EST 2010

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