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Unit 3: Vocabulary from Readings 1

This list covers "The Canonization" and Othello, Act 1, Scene 3.
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  1. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
    For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love;
    Or chide my palsy, or my gout
  2. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
    My five gray hairs, or ruin’d fortune flout
  3. litigious
    inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree
    Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
    Litigious men, which quarrels move
  4. taper
    stick of wax with a wick in the middle
    We’re tapers too, and at our own cost die
  5. canonize
    treat as a sacred person
    And by these hymns, all shall approve
    Us canonized for love.
  6. invoke
    request earnestly; ask for aid or protection
    And thus invoke us, “You, whom reverend love
    Made one another’s hermitage
  7. hermitage
    the abode of a recluse
    And thus invoke us, “You, whom reverend love
    Made one another’s hermitage
  8. epitomize
    embody the essential characteristics of
    You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
    Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
    Into the glasses of your eyes;
    So made such mirrors, and such spies,
    That they did all to you epitomize
  9. bid
    ask for or request earnestly
    I ran it through, even from my boyish days
    To the very moment that he bade me tell it.
  10. imminent
    close in time; about to occur
    Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
    Of moving accidents by flood and field;
    Of hairbreadth scapes i' th’ imminent deadly breach
  11. pliant
    capable of being influenced or formed
    She'd come again, and with a greedy ear
    Devour up my discourse. Which I observing,
    Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
    To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
    That I would all my pilgrimage dilate
  12. dilate
    add details to clarify an idea
    She'd come again, and with a greedy ear
    Devour up my discourse. Which I observing,
    Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
    To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
    That I would all my pilgrimage dilate
  13. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
    I did consent,
    And often did beguile her of her tears,
    When I did speak of some distressful stroke
    That my youth suffered.
Created on Thu Jan 28 09:04:44 EST 2021 (updated Tue Feb 02 16:43:32 EST 2021)

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