Hamlet Vocab

dirge

a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead

mirth

great merriment

mottle

mark with spots or blotches of different color

suspicious

openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

frailty

the state of being weak in health or body

jocund

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

obsequious

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

commendable

worthy of high praise

obstinate

marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

impious

lacking piety or reverence for a god

vulgar

of or associated with the great masses of people

absurd

inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense

suspiration

an utterance made by exhaling audibly

supposal

a hypothesis that is taken for granted

coronation

the ceremony of installing a new monarch

pester

annoy persistently

melancholy

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

auspicious

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck

satyr

one of a class of woodland deities

canon

a collection of books accepted as holy scripture

truant

one who is absent from school without permission

countenance

the appearance conveyed by a person's face

convoy

the act of escorting while in transit

trifle

a detail that is considered insignificant

virtue

a quality of doing what is right

prodigal

recklessly wasteful

calumnious

harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

scant

less than the correct or legal full amount

sanctified

made, declared, or believed to be holy

purgatory

a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology

celestial

relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven

enmity

a state of deep-seated ill-will

contrive

make or work out a plan for; devise

knave

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

perturbed

thrown into a state of agitated confusion

rein

one of a pair of long straps used to control a horse

expostulate

reason with for the purpose of dissuasion

quintessence

the most typical example or representative of a type

epitaph

an inscription in memory of a buried person