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Othello Vocabulary
Vocabulary from Othello
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English
12th Grade
01/24/2008

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Cards

Term

 

Bombast

Definition

 

 

 wordy envasion

Term

 

Timorous

Definition

 

 

fearful, frightening

 

 

 

Term

 

Distempering

Definition

 

 

intoxicating

Term

 

Abused

Definition

 

 

 

deceived

Term

 

Yerked

Definition

 

 

 

stabbed

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Demerits

Definition

 

 

mark for deficiency or misconduct;

negative feature

Term

 

Mountebanks

Definition

 

 

deceiver; fake healer

Term

 

Anters

Definition

 

 

 

caverns

Term

 

Slubber

Definition

 

 

 

soil, sully

Term

 

Indign

Definition

 

 

unworthy, shameful

Term

 

Cuckold

Definition

 

 

a man whose wife

was unfaithful

Term

 

Paragons

Definition

 

 

surpasses

Term

 

Housewives

Definition
Term

 

Gyve

Definition

 

 

fetter; shackle

Term

 

Perdition

Definition

 

 

defeat; 

punishment in hell

Term

 

Horologe

Definition

 

 

timepiece; a measuring

instrument of keeping time

Term

 

Mazard

Definition

 

 

head

Term

 

Fustian

Definition

 

 

talk nonsense; rant

Term

 

Discourse

Definition

 

 

serious conversation

Term

 

Shrift

Definition

 

 

the act of being shriven

Term

 

Conceit

Definition

 

 

imaginative idea

Term

 

Disporportion

Definition

 

 

abnormality

Term

 

Sequester

Definition

 

 

to put someone in

isolation from something/someone

Term

 

Advocation

Definition

 

 

support; help;

advocacy

Term

 

Caitiff

Definition

 

 

wretch

Term

 

Fond

Definition

 

 

foolish

Term

 

Censure

Definition

 

 

disapproval;

official condemnation

Term

 

Cogging

Definition

 

 

cheating; defrauding

Term

 

Votarist

Definition

 

 

nun

Term

 

Minion

Definition

 

 

hussy [Desdemona]

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Fordoes

Definition

 

 

undoes; ruins

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Iterance

Definition

 

 

iteration; repetition

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