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Shakespeare Vocabulary: King Lear

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aroint thee
go away
asquint
betray
auspicious mistress
favored influence
belike
most likely
bewary
disclose
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bootless
good for nothing
brach
female hunting dog
broken sinews
nerve racking
civet
a scent
corky
died-up from age
coxcomb
a fool's cap
cullionly barbermonger
boy who frequents the barber
distaff
tool used in spinning
eliads
French in origin, meaning affectionate glances
eyeless
invisible
fain
glad
festches
alibi,defense
festinate
accelerated, hasty
flibbertigibbet
Shakespearean name for the devil
forks
legs
gallow
scare
gasted
terrified, alarmed
gauntlet
medieval glove thrown down in defiance
goatish
Elizabethans often used the goat to represent lewd behavior
goodyears
refers to the forces of evil, in accordance with folk tradition calling evil spirits by innocent names
great wheel
fortune's wheel
hit together
be of the same mind
knapped
knocked
long-ingraffed
never-ending
maugre
in spite of
much ado
much fuss or trouble
nuncle
abbreviation of mine uncle
reeking
sweating
rive
split open
sennet
a piece of music performed on the trumpet during a ceremonial entrance
slenderly known himself
does not know his real self at all
smilets
small smiles
theban
the association of the Greek city Thebes, as with Athens, is with philosophical
trowest
believe in
untented
incurable
upon the gad
drop of a dime

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