MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

VOCABULARY
NAME_________________________________DATE__________

This is class work to be completed as homework! Due

dates are listed next to the assignments.

Assignment # 1: Choose 10 words that are unknown to you from the

list. Write down the definition, part of speech. This means that you
have to actually copy the word and definition again onto your own
paper. Use each new word in a sentence of more than 6 words. DUE
March 15th.

Assignment # 2: Write a story, postcard, letter or journal entry using

15-25 words in context. DUE March 22nd.

Assignment # 3: Find and write at least 5 synonyms and 5 antonyms

for each of the 10 words you chose. DUE April 5th.

Vocabulary mastery comes from encountering new words in

assigned reading, in studying vocabulary word lists, and using
words in context.

Much Ado About Nothing Vocabulary Words (38 total words)

1. Shrewd - adj. good at judging people or situations, crafty
2. Counterfeit - adj. forged, false
3. Disdain - adj. intense scorn
4. Slander - n. saying something false and damaging
5. Amorous - adj. expressing or feeling love
6. Banquet - n. ceremonial meal
7. Disposition - n. personality, behavioral tendency
8. Perturbation - n. the act of being disturbed or troubled
9. Melancholy - adj. feeling or causing pensive sadness
10. Mirth - n. laughter
11. Ducat - n. (1) Any of various gold coins formerly used in certain European countries. (2)
Slang. a. A piece of money. b. An admission ticket
12. Orthography - (n. pl. orthographies) (1) The art or study of correct spelling according to
established usage. (2)The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their
sequences in words. (3) A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by
written symbols; spelling
13. Lief - adv. (liefer, liefest) Readily; willingly: I would as lief go now as later. adj (1) Beloved;
dear. (2) Ready or willing. adj : (`lief' is archaic) very willing; "was lief to go"; "glad to help"
[syn: glad, lief(p)] adv : in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it"
[syn: gladly, fain]
14. Crotchet - n. An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion
15. Flout - v. (flouted, flouting, flouts) v. tr. To show contempt for; scorn: flout a law; behavior that
flouted convention.
16. Haggard - adj. (1) a.Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt. b.Wild or distraught in
appearance. (2) Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry; As a noun - An adult hawk
captured for training.
17. Misprize - tr.v. (misprized, misprizing, misprizes) (misprising) (1) To despise. (2) To
undervalue.
18. Enamor - v. (enamoured) To inspire with love; captivate: was enamored of the beautiful
dancer; were enamored with the charming island.
19. Usurer - n. One who lends money at interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawfully high
rate.
20. Bullock - n. (1) A castrated bull; a steer. (2) A young bull
21. Poniard - n. A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
22. Endow - v. (1) To provide with property, income, or a source of income. a. To equip or supply
with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice. b. To imagine as
having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence. (2)
To provide with a dower
23. Cleave - v.(cleft) (1) To split with or as if with a sharp instrument. (2) To make or accomplish
by or as if by cutting: cleave a path through the ice. (3) To pierce or penetrate: The wings
cleaved the foggy air
24. Rite - n. (1) The prescribed or customary form for conducting a religious or other solemn
ceremony: the rite of baptism. (2) A ceremonial act or series of acts: fertility rites. (3) The
liturgy or practice of a branch of the Christian church.
25. Valor - n. (valour) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when
facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal
for valor.”
26. Bubonic Plague - n. A contagious, often fatal epidemic disease caused by the bacterium
Yersinia (syn. Pasteurella) pestis, transmitted from person to person or by the bite of fleas
from an infected rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea,
and the formation of buboes
27. Victual - n. Food fit for human consumption
28. Predestinate - adj. Established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was
foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the
beginning of the world"
29. Baldrick - n. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or
bugle by the left hip.
30. Vile - adj. Loathsome; disgusting: vile language. Unpleasant or objectionable: Contemptibly
low in worth or account; second-rate. Of mean or low condition. Miserably poor and
degrading; wretched: a vile existence. Morally depraved; ignoble or wicked: a vile conspiracy
31. Revelling - adj.Taking great pleasure or delight: engaging in uproarious festivities; making
merry
32. Pleach(ed) - v. To plait or interlace, especially in making a hedge or an arbor. To shade or
border with interlaced branches or vines
33. Enfranchise(d) - v. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to. To vote. To
free, as from bondage
34. Impediment - n. bar or hinder the progress
35. Nuptial - adj. of marriage or a wedding
36. Reproach - v. to accuse of and blame for a fault so as to make feel ashamed;
rebuke, reprove
37. Frugal - adj. not wasteful
38. Epitaphs - pl.n. an inscription on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person