Hamlet Vocabulary (Context clue, definition from context clue, dictionary definition)

Vocabulary

Word

Context Structure

Context Clues

Definition from Context

Dictionary Definition

Heathen

“What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' could he dig without arms?”

Mason

“What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?”

Indenture

“will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?”

Flagon

“A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester”

Abhor

“he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it.”

Gibe

“Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?”

Imperious

“Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!”

Betoken

“This doth betoken The corse they follow did with desperate hand Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate. Couch we awhile, and mark.”

Profane

“We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.”

Requiem

“To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.”

Churlish

“I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.”

Yeoman

“It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote?”

Tributary

“As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear”

Insinuation

“Does by their own insinuation grow: 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.”

Canker

“To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd, To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?”

Perdition

“Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail.”

Infallible

“Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.”