"Hamlet", Vocabulary from Act 1

Skylar S. (United States of America)
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  1. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  2. partisan
    a pike with a long tapering blade with lateral projections
  3. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  4. filial
    relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
  5. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  6. discourse
    extended verbal expression in speech or writing
  7. truant
    absent without permission
  8. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  9. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  10. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  11. parley
    a negotiation between enemies
  12. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  13. canonize
    treat as a sacred person
  14. adulterate
    mixed with impurities
  15. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  16. antic
    ludicrously odd
Created on Mon Sep 30 10:05:03 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Sep 30 10:07:17 EDT 2013)

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