Unit 3: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury," "Whoso list to hunt," "With how sad steps," "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd," "Psalm 23," "The Prodigal Son," and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
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  1. treachery
    an act of deliberate betrayal
    We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
  2. concord
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
    In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valor in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
  3. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
    The vain travail hath wearied me so sore
    I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
  4. graven
    cut or impressed into a surface
    And graven with diamonds in letters plain
    There is written, her fair neck round about,
    “Noli me tangere, for Cæsar’s I am,
    And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”
  5. wan
    lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
    With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies,
    How silently, and with how wan a face!
  6. languish
    lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
    I read it in thy looks: thy languished grace,
    To me that feel the like, thy state descries
    Then even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me
    Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
  7. scorn
    reject with contempt
    Do they above love to be loved, and yet
    Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
  8. impediment
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments.
  9. alter
    become different in some particular way
    Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove
  10. belie
    represent falsely
    And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
    As any she belied with false compare.
  11. wanton
    not restrained or controlled
    The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
    To wayward winter reckoning yields
  12. gall
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
    A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
    Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
  13. restore
    return to life; get or give new life or energy
    He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
  14. righteousness
    the quality of adhering to moral principles
    He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
  15. anoint
    administer an oil or ointment to, often ceremonially
    Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
  16. diligently
    in a hard-working manner
    Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
  17. riotous
    unrestrained by convention or morality
    And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
  18. famine
    a severe shortage of food resulting in starvation and death
    And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
  19. entreat
    ask for or request earnestly
    And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him.
  20. transgress
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
    And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends...
  21. virtuous
    morally excellent
    As virtuous men pass mildly away,
    And whisper to their souls to go,
    Whilst some of their sad friends do say
    The breath goes now, and some say, no
  22. breach
    a personal or social separation
    Our two souls therefore, which are one,
    Though I must go, endure not yet
    A breach, but an expansion,
    Like gold to airy thinness beat.
  23. obliquely
    at a slanting angle
    Such wilt thou be to me, who must
    Like th’ other foot, obliquely run
Created on Tue Mar 09 09:31:56 EST 2021 (updated Tue Mar 16 13:54:42 EDT 2021)

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