Othello Vocabulary I
1. abhor: to regard with horror or loathing
2. alacrity: eagerness
3. bombast: pompous speech; using fancy, pretentious words to say very little
4. beguile: to charm; to distract
5. cuckold:a man married to an unfaithful wife (n); to make a man into a cuckold (v)
6. censure: to criticize severely; blame (v); an expression of strong disapproval (n)
7. conjure: to summon ( a devil or spirit) by magic; to imagine or bring forth an idea
8. citadel: a fortress
9. cudgel: a club (short heavy stick)
10. egregious: conspicuously, glaringly, obviously bad or wrong
11. facile: easy: effortless
12. gall: something bitter to endure; outrageous insolence or rudeness
13. homage: a special honor or respect expressed publicly
14. infirmity: frailty; weakness; illness
15. inhibit: to hold back, restrain
16. lascivious: exciting sexual desires; lecherous, lewd
17. mountebank: a seller of fake (quack) medicines; a charlatan
18. obsequious: servile, overly flattering or obedient (used to describe a kiss up)
19. paragon: a model of excellence
20. perdition: hell; eternal damnation
21. propriety: appropriateness; the quality of being proper
22. peevish: irritable
23. rebuke: to criticize sharply, reprimand
24. surfeit: overindulgence; an excessive amount of something
25. taper: a candle (n); to become narrower (v)
Othello Vocabulary 2
1. indignity: humiliating treatment; an insult to a person’s dignity
2. imperious: arrogant and overbearing, domineering
3. enfettered: chained
4. dilatory: tending to delay or procrastinate
5. affinity: a natural attraction for something
6. filch: to take something sneakily
7. surmise: (n.) a guess (v.) to guess, based on some information
8. sequester: to set apart; to cause to withdraw to seclusion
9. ocular: pertaining to the eyes
10. castigate: to criticize sharply
11. venial: easily excused, as a sin or fault; minor, not serious
12. lethargy: sluggishness (adj – lethargic)
13. wanton: immoral, unchaste; also, senseless, deliberately malicious
14. strumpet: prostitute
15. teem: to be full of, to swarm
16. mandate: a command
17. requite: to make payment in return for something; to pay back
18. cistern: receptacle for water, a well
19. harlot: whore
20. pernicious: deadly, causing great harm
21. upbraid: to criticize harshly
22. extenuate: to lessen with partial excuses; to make less serious (as in a crime)
23. restitution: the process of restoring something to its rightful owner
24. edify: to teach, enlighten
25. aberration: a deviation or departure from the right path or usual course of action