alack, a list getting to know shakespeare’s high-frequency archaic sight words
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ALACK, A LIST
Getting to know Shakespeare’s high-frequency
archaic sight words
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GUESS THE MEANING OF:
Good-bye, farewell
Soon, immediately
Listen
Never
To seek and gain (seduce)
Adieu
Anon
Hark
Ne’er
Woo
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Alas, then she is drowned!”
Alas: Expresses sorrow
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou
Romeo?”
Wherefore: Why
Art: Are
Thou: You
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Well, sir, I’ll bring you to our master
Lear, and leave you to attend him.”
Attend: to wait upon; to pay attention
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn
bright!”
“O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict
me!”
Dost, doth: Do, does
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“List, list, o list! If ever thou didst thy
old father love—revenge his foul and
most unnatural murder!”
List: Listen
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Fie on’t! Ah, fie! ’Tis an unweeded
garden that grows to seed.”
Fie: A curse
’Tis: It is
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Perchance she weeps because they
killed her husband, perchance
because she knows them innocent.”
Perchance: Maybe
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“I prithee, take thy fingers from my
throat.”
Prithee: I pray thee; please
Thy: Your
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Resolve me, with all modest haste.”
Resolve: To answer; to reply
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Peace, sirrah! You beastly knave, know you
no reverence?”
Sirrah: A lowly person
Knave: A villain
BONUS!!! MODERNIZE THIS SENTENCE
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is
aweary of this great world.”
Troth: Belief
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WORDS IN CONTEXT
“Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench.
O, how I long to have some chat with
her!”
Wench: A female person; varies in tone
from tenderness to contempt
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BONUS!:WEIRD OLD INSULTS
Dotard• Old fool
Maltworm• Heavy drinker
Flirt-gill• Loose woman