Perdue, English 10
VOCABULARY - Othello : Act II
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the
sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior
knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1.Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death, Stand in bold cure.
2. If after every tempest comes such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened
death!
3. . . . they say base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is
native to them . . . .
4. When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it
and to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners and
beauties, all which the Moor is defective in.
5. Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly
and green minds look after.
6. . . . and the impediment most profitably removed without the which there were no
expectation of our prosperity.
7. . . . Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me For making him egregiously an
ass And practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness.
8. It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant General, that upon certain tidings now
arrived, importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet, every man put himself into
triumph -- . . . .
II. Determining the Meaning - Match the words to their dictionary definitions. If all
else fails, use a dictionary!
____ 1. surfeited
A. the condition of being overfilled or overgratified
____ 2. tempest
B. total ruin; damnation
____ 3. base
C. requirements
____ 4. satiety
D. conspicuously offensively
____ 5. requisites
E. violent storm
____ 6. impediment
F. common; low in station
____ 7. egregiously
G. something in the way; a hinderance
____ 8. perdition
H. fed to excess