Julius Caesar Acts I-III- Context Clues

Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"But let not therefore my good friends be grieved...

Nor construe any further my neglect

Than that Brutus, with himself at war,

Forgets the shows of love to other men." - Brutus, I.ii.43-47

• interpret

• disprove

• exalt

• fear

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown, yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put it by once, But for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it." - Casca, II.ii.235-239

• unwillingly

• gladly

• quickly

• fearfully

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough

To mask they monstrous visage?" - Brutus, II.i.80-81

• logic

• action

• expression

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,

Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,

Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans

Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.

And these does she apply for warnings and portents..." - Caesar, II.ii.76-80

• signs

• truths

• falsehoods

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;

If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive." - Artemidorus, II.iii.12-13

• confess

• plot

• hide

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"He wished today our enterprise might thrive.

I fear our purpose is discovered." - Cassius, III.i. 16-17

• invented

• explored

• detected

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar." - Metellus Cimber, III.i. 33

• powerful

• considerate

• infirm

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Grant that, and then is death a benefit;

So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged

His time of fearing death." - Brutus, III.i.104-106

• stretched

• shortened

• prolonged

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony

May safely come to him and be resolved

How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,

Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead

So well as Brutus living..." - Antony's Servant, III.i.131-135

• reject

• betray

• guarantee

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"My credit now stands on such slippery ground

That one of two bad ways you must conceit me —

Either a coward or a flatterer." - Mark Antony, III.i.192-194

• perceive

• pressure

• pursue

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