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VOCABULARY - Julius Caesar Act Part: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues ‘Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear inthe text. Read the sentence, Us any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean onthe lines provide, 1. But et nat therefore my good frends be grieved “Among which number, Cassius, be you one = [Nor constue any further my neglect ‘Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men, 2, Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitatons 3. Upon the word, ‘Accoutered as was, plunged in ‘And bade him flow. 4, How Ihave thought of this and ofthese times, 1 shall recount hereafter; for this present, T would not, so with love I might gnieat you, Be any further moved. 5. saw Mark Antony fer him a crown, yet twas not a crown neither, twas one of these ‘oronets nd, as I told you, he putt by once. But forall hat, to my thinkin, he would fin have had it 6, What a blunt fellow is this grown to be! He was quick meite when he went to schoo. 7 Julius Caesar Act Continued 7. When these prodigies Do so conjointly mee, let aot men say "These ae ther reasons, they are natural." 8, For believe they ate portentous things ‘Unto the climate that they point upon. Part: Determining the Meaning ‘You have tried to figure out the meanings ofthe vocabulary words for Act, Now match the vocabulary words to thee dictionary definitions. IPthere are words for which you cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and by process of elimination, look them up in Aietionary. construe ‘A. omens 2 cogitaions B. fly armed i accoutered C ioterpret Ta entreat temperament stain E. foreboding To mete F thoughts 7 prodigies G. make an earnest request of 8 porentous H.pladly Vocabulary - Julius Caesar Act Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues ‘Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence, Use any clues you can fing in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided, 1. And sine the quarrel ‘Will bear no colar forthe thing he is, Fshion it thus: that what he is augmented, ‘Would run to these and these extremities. 2 Where wilt thou find cavern dark enoveh ‘To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, Conspiracy — Hide it in smiles an aability 3, Yet fear him/For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar 4, Bur tis doubuful yet ‘Whether Caesar will come forth today ot no, For he i superstitious grown of at, (Quite from the main opinion he held once OF Fantasy of dreams and ceremonies. lemay be these apparent prodigies, And the persuasion of his augurers, ‘May hold him from the Capitol oday. 5. Isitexcepted I should know no secrets ‘That anperain ta you? 39 Vocabulary Julius Caesar Act I Continued 6. My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out ofthe teeth of emul Part I: Determining the Meaning: Match the definitions tothe vocabulary words. — 9.augmented A. planted firmly; established Tio. visage made greater in size, extent or quantity Sib atiebitiy Ceny 12 ingrated D. signs of disaster 13. prodigies E.face 14. auguress F belong to asa proper function or part 15. apperain G. professional interpreters of omens [16 emulation friendliness; eraciousness 40 ‘Vocabulary - Julius Caesar Act It Par I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the voeabulary words appear inthe text, Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided, ‘Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar, Metells Cimber throws before thy seat ‘Athumble hea 2. Our ams in strength of malice, and our hearts COfbrothers temper, do receive you in With all kind love, ood thoughts, and reverence. (Only be patent ill we have appeased The multitude, beside themseives with tear, And then we will deliver you the cause ‘Why I. that did love Caesar when I stuck him Have thus proceeded 4. Domestic fury and fierce civil stife Shall eumber al the parts of lly “There shall try, In my ozation, how the people take The cruel issue ofthese Bloody men, According othe which, thou shat discourse “To young Octavius ofthe state of things, 6, Who ishere so hase tht would bea bondman? 4 Julius Caesar Aet Il Continued 7. He hath brought many captives to Rome, ‘Whose ransom did the general coffers fil 8. Youall do know this mane. remember ‘The First time ever Caeser put ion 9, Lam not Cinna the onspizator Part I: Determining the Meaning ‘You have tried to figure out the meanings ofthe vocabulary words for Act IL. Now match the vocabulary word to thet ditionay definitions. there are words for which you eannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and by process of elimination look them up ina dictionary. 17. pussant ‘A. strugale fight or quae 18. malice B. formal speech 19. appeased cloak 20. strife D. one who plans with others to commit an illegal act 721. oration powerful; mighty 2 base F. public weasuy 23. coffers G. soatheds pacified 24, mantle HL iwill or spite 25, conspirator 1. devoid of high values or ethics Vocabulary - Julius Caesar Aets IV and V Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Cues ‘Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear inthe txt. Read the sentence, Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean onthe lines proved, |. But, Lepidus, go you to Caesars house Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cu off some charge in legacies. 2, The name of Cassius honors this corruption, ‘And chastsement doth therefore hide his head ‘When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, wth ll your thunderbolt, Dash him to pieces! 4. Why do you cross me in this exigent? 5. Coming ftom Sardis, on our former ensign “Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perched 6. Thou never comest unto @ happy birth, ‘But kills the mother that engendered thee! 8 lis Caesar Aets IV and VContinved 7 For piercing steel and darts envenomed Shall be as welcome tothe eats of Brutus As tidings of tis sight 8. Oh, Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yt! ‘Thy spirit walks abroad, nd tums our swords In our own proper entails Part I Determining the Meaning ‘You have tried to figre out the meanings ofthe vocabulary words fo Chapters 6 & 7. ‘Now match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. If her are words for which you cannot figure out the definition by contextual cues and by process of elimination, lok them up ina dictionary 26. legacioe A. wanting the poteesione of othere 27. chastsement B. poisoned 28 covetous inherited money or goods 29. exigent D. punishment TS 3o.ensign E, conceived I engendered F eritial moment 32 envenomed G. internal organs, especially intestines 33. envi HE colors; lag carted by a company

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