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The Merchant of Venice Vocab
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Literature
12th Grade
05/15/2013

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Gravity (n.)

Definition
  1. Force that causes terrestrial bodies to fall towards the center of the earth
  2. affect of a factor on a situation

Synonyms: seriousness, importance, danger

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Grievous (adj.)

Definition

 1. Causing great sorrow

 2. Outrageous, atrocious

 3. (n.) Four-armed, lightsaber-weilding robot

 

Synonyms: distressing, sorrowful

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Jaundice (n.)

Definition

 1. Yellow discoloration of the skin

 2. State of being prejudicial, biased judgment

 

Synonyms: bias, disposition

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Melancholy (n.)

Definition

 1. A gloomy state of mind

 2. Condition of having to much black bile,

     believed to cause depression

 

Synonyms: Dejection, Despondency

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Peevish (adj.)

Definition

 1. fretful, as from vexation or discontent

 2. showing annoyance, irritation

 

Synonyms: petulant, irritable

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Prodigal (adj.)

Definition

 1. Wastefully or recklessly extravagant

 2. giving or yielding profusely

 

Synonyms: profligate, lavish

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Quaint (adj.)

Definition

 1. having an old-fashioned attractiveness or

     charm

 2. skillfully or cleverly made

 

Synonyms: antiquated, curious

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Spurn (v.)

Definition

 1. To reject with disdain

 2. to kick or trample with the foot

 

Synonyms: refuse, kick

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Surfeited (n.)

Definition

 1. An excessive amount

 2. Uncomfortable feeling brought on by

     overeating

 

Synonyms: gorged, superabundance

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Vehement (adj.)

Definition

 1. strongly emotional

 2. characterized by rancor or anger

 

Synonyms: earnest, angry

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Wanton (adj.)

Definition

 1. Maliciously unjustifiable

 2. Sexually unrestrained

 3. extravagantly luzurious

 

Synonyms: Malicious, lustful, lavish

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Dulcet (adj.)

Definition

 1. Pleasant to the ear

 2. (n.) Organ stop resembling the dulciana

 

Synonyms: tuneful, mellifluous

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