Othello Vocabulary Act 1
Mr. Phelan
English 3 Honors
Quiz Date: Friday, 9/25
1. abhor: despise, find repugnant
9. vexation: anger produced by some annoying
irritation
If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.
"Hate me," says the speaker.
Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,
2. bombast: pompous or pretentious talk or
writing
10. timorous: full of fear; fearful; characterized
by or indicating fear; subject to fear, timid.
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
3.epithet: a defamatory or abusive word or
phrase
11. lascivious: indicating sexual interest or
expressive of lust or lewdness
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor --
4. Moor: one of the Muslim people of north
Africa
12. delude: be dishonest with
For thus deluding you.
To love the Moor.
The word "moor" refers to Othello's heritage;
Shakespeare implies that he is of Muslim /
African lineage.
5. obsequious: obedient or attentive to an
excessive or servile degree
13. promulgate: state or announce; to make
known by open declaration
I shall promulgate -- I fetch my life and being
14. manifest: provide evidence for
Shall manifest me rightly.
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
6. visage
15. palpable: readily or plainly seen, heard,
perceived, etc.; obvious; evident
tangible
1. the face, usually with reference to shape,
features, expression, etc.; countenance.
2. aspect; appearance.
'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.
16. assay: an appraisal of the state of affairs
Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,
By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,
7. homage: respectful deference, reverence
Do themselves homage: these fellows have
some soul;
17. facile: performing adroitly and without
effort
So may he with more facile question bear it,
8. rouse: cause to become awake or conscious
Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,
18. mountebank: a flamboyant deceiver. any
charlatan or quack.
By spells and medicines bought
of mountebanks;
19. insolent: boldly rude or disrespectful
Of being taken by the insolent foe
20. boisterous: 1. rough and noisy; noisily jolly
or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained:
the sound of boisterous laughter.
2. (of waves, weather, wind, etc.) rough and
stormy.
Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
known to you; and though we have there a
substitute
of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a
sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more
safer
voice on you: you must therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this
more stubborn and boisterous expedition.
21. alacrity: liveliness and eagerness; cheerful
readiness
A natural and prompt alacrity
22. defunct: no longer in force or use; inactive
In me defunct -- and proper satisfaction.
23. usurp: seize and take control without
authority
Put money in thy
purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour
with
an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse.
24. beguile - to influence by trickery, flattery,
etc.; mislead; delude.
Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
And you of her, the bloody book of law
You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
After your own sense, yea, though our proper
son
Stood in your action.