Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Vocabulary Defininitions

 
from Shakespeare's Othello


  • Beguile: to influence through trickery
  • Censure: express disapproval and/or punish
  • Chaste: innocent/virginal
  • Cunning: smart,clever, sly
  • Devise: to plan or invent
  • Disposition: general attitude of a person
  • Ignorance: not knowing
  • Insinuate: to hint something without saying it outright
  • Malice: doing something to cause harm or being mean on purpose
  • Modest: shy, conservative, not showy
  • Notorious: known for something bad
  • Paradox: something that contradicts itself
  • Repent: to regret something you did/said and try to make up for it
  • Solicit: to try to get something by appealing to someone
  • Vice: a bad habit or negative quality in a person
  • Vouch: to support as true or good
 

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