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

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Hamlet Act Four Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary Word	Context Structure	Context Clues	Definition from Context	Dictionary Definition
Importunate	“She is importunate, indeed distract: Her mood will needs be pitied.”
Conjectures	“Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.”
Inter	“In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts”
Pestilent	“And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death; Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear.”
Superfluous	“O my dear Gertrude, this, Like to a murdering-piece, in many places Gives me superfluous death.”
Impetuous	“The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers.”
Incensed	“Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. Speak, man”
Mortal	“So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratch'd withal”
Obscure	“His means of death, his obscure funeral-- No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, No noble rite nor formal ostentation-- Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, That I must call't in question.”
Requite	“Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease, Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise Requite him for your father.”