Unit 2: Novel Study: Hamlet, Acts 1–2

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  1. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  2. probation
    a trial period when an offender has time to redeem himself
  3. kin
    a person related to another or others
  4. commendable
    worthy of high praise
  5. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  6. incestuous
    relating to or involving incest
  7. apparition
    a ghostly appearing figure
  8. wax
    increase in phase
  9. calumnious
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  10. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  11. beguile
    influence by slyness
  12. harrow
    cause to feel distress
  13. lewd
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  14. adieu
    a farewell remark
  15. antic
    ludicrously odd
  16. brevity
    the use of concise expressions
  17. celestial
    of heaven or the spirit
  18. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  19. firmament
    the sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
  20. pestilent
    exceedingly harmful
  21. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  22. abridgment
    a shortened version of a longer work
  23. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
Created on Mon Dec 14 17:24:34 EST 2020 (updated Tue Feb 02 11:06:50 EST 2021)

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