Hamlet Act 1 Vocabulary

unsurp

• make (secret or new information) known

• keep from sight

• seize and take control without authority

• make (something) visible by uncovering it

portentous

• ominously prophetic

• attempting to impress

• past

• a preterit tense

partisan

• a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body

• a pike with a long tampering blade with lateral projections

• holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold

• aware of one's own existence

discretion

• extreme anxiety, sorrow

• agitated with doubt or mental conflict

• gathered together

• a trail of judging wisely and objectively

mirth

• shining bright and steady

• a period or condition of freedom

• great merriment

• devoid of or abstaining from motion

visage

• a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body part

• a member of servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner

• the quality of state of being sere

• the appearance conveyed by a person's face

obsequious

• attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

• easy discovered, seen, or understood

• not ambivalent

• to throw into the shadow

retrograde

• :of, relating to, or suitable to a king

• moving or directed or tending in a backward direction

• : of, relating to, or subject the crow

• a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another

jocund

• one who is or remains loyal especially to a political cause, government or sovereignty

• unyielding firmness or endurance

• full of or showing high-spirited merriment

• to deal with successfully

countenance

• to place so as to stay

• a device for setting circular saws that has an adjustable cone center and a hardened revolvable steel anvil

• a matter designating the person who are parties to and and essential to the validity of a document

• the appearance conveyed by a person's face