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.
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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.pladlyVocabulary - 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?
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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
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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?
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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 ethicsVocabulary - 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!
8lis 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