Hamlet Vocabulary III

Match the following

• groundling

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• turbulent

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• bulwark

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• paradox

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• fetter

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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

Select the strongest synonym for beget.

• limit

• occasion

• create

• smother

O, there be players that I have seen play and heard others praise (and that highly), not to speak it profanely, that, neither having th’ accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

Select the strongest antonym for profane.

• bodiless

• sacred

• irreverent

• godless

If his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damnèd ghost that we have seen,
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan’s stithy.

Select the strongest synonym for occult.

• ambiguous

• obvious

• unanswerable

• plain

The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.

Select the strongest antonym for lament.

• mourn

• rejoice

• weep

• grin