English 12 - Hamlet, Act 3

Front 1

devotion

Back 1

religious worship, prayer

Front 2

visage

Back 2

an assumed appearance, an outward show

Front 3

pious

Back 3

faithful to religious duties, devout

Front 4

harlot

Back 4

a prostitute, a strumpet

Front 5

consummation

Back 5

the action of completing, accomplishing, fulfilling

Front 6

calamity

Back 6

deep distress or trouble; the state of grievous affliction

Front 7

contumely

Back 7

insolent reproach or abuse; insulting language

Front 8

quietus

Back 8

release from life; death, or what brings death

Front 9

bodkin

Back 9

a short pointed weapon, dagger

Front 10

fardels

Back 10

a burden of sin, sorrow, etc.

Front 11

nymph

Back 11

1. semi-divine beings of myth, beautiful maidens of nature
2. a young and beautiful girl

Front 12

orison

Back 12

prayer

Front 13

wax

Back 13

to grow, increase

Front 14

honest

Back 14

1. honorable, respectable
2. chaste, virtuous

Front 15

bawd

Back 15

one employed in pandering to sexual debauchery; pimp

Front 16

arrant

Back 16

notorious, downright

Front 17

knave

Back 17

1. a boy employed as a servant
2. a base rogue

Front 18

calumny

Back 18

false and malicious misrepresentation of others' words/actions; slander

Front 19

monster

Back 19

cuckold

Front 20

wanton(ness)

Back 20

lascivious, unchaste

Front 21

haply

Back 21

by chance, maybe

Front 22

tempest

Back 22

a violent storm of wind, rain, thunder

Front 23

groundlings

Back 23

a frequenter of the ground (pit) of a theater, thus an unrefined spectator

Front 24

discretion

Back 24

judgement, decision, discrimination

Front 25

censure

Back 25

1. a formal opinion
2. a judicial sentence, judgement

Front 26

profanely

Back 26

irreverently, impiously

Front 27

pagan

Back 27

one wo does not hold the true religion or worship God

Front 28

unkennel

Back 28

to force/drive out from a place or position; to bring to light

Front 29

nothing

Back 29

the female sexual anatomy

Front 30

wormwood

Back 30

bitter plant, used for medicine and vermouth and absinthe

Front 31

choler

Back 31

bile, supposed to cause angry temper

Front 32

purgation

Back 32

the clearing of impurities; purification

Front 33

fetter(s)

Back 33

chain/shackles for the feet of a human or animal

Front 34

whereto

Back 34

to what end? for what purpose?

Front 35

apoplexy

Back 35

a suddenly-attacking malady (like a stroke)

Front 36

cozened

Back 36

to cheat, defraud by deceit

Front 37

unction

Back 37

1. an ointment for lubricating
2. a soothing influence

Front 38

scourge

Back 38

1. a whip, lash
2. a cause of calamity

Front 39

minister

Back 39

1. one who waits upon (ministers to) the wants of another
2. an officier attached to justice

Front 40

petard

Back 40

a small engine of war used to blow in a door/gate