Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings 4

This list covers How Shakespeare Changed Everything.
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  1. flamboyant
    tending to attract attention; marked by ostentatious display
    Garrick let Juliet wake up before Romeo is properly dead—a flamboyant effect that is not in the original.
  2. purity
    the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong
    Garrick created teenagers who were icons of purity in a corrupt adult world.
  3. profane
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
    ROMEO: If I profane with my unworthiest hand
    This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
    My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
    To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
  4. purge
    make pure or free from sin or guilt
    Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
  5. vague
    lacking clarity or distinctness
    The vague but palpable effect of this sudden advent of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme is inexplicable beauty.
  6. palpable
    capable of being perceived
    The vague but palpable effect of this sudden advent of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme is inexplicable beauty.
  7. harbinger
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
    The young in Lou Reed’s song are the harbingers of apocalyptic social decay, and their only redemption is the love they preserve against the despair everywhere around them.
  8. apocalyptic
    prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
    The young in Lou Reed’s song are the harbingers of apocalyptic social decay, and their only redemption is the love they preserve against the despair everywhere around them.
  9. absurdity
    the state or quality of being ridiculous
    Shakespeare loves his teenagers as he paints them in all their absurdity and nastiness.
  10. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
    In place of nostalgia and loathing, Shakespeare would have us look at teenagers in a spirit of wonder, even the spotty ones and the awkward ones and the wild ones.
  11. loathing
    hate coupled with disgust
    In place of nostalgia and loathing, Shakespeare would have us look at teenagers in a spirit of wonder, even the spotty ones and the awkward ones and the wild ones.
Created on Tue Jan 12 09:51:37 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 13 13:00:15 EST 2021)

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