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8th Grade WRITING
Homework Packet
Vocabulary from ​Twelfth Night
Due Monday, April 10th, 2017
Monday:​ Circle the word in each passage. Write the word in your own sentence.
Tuesday:​ Draw a picture to represent the meaning of the word.
Wednesday: ​Write a synonym and an antonym for the word.
Thursday:​ Make a word waterfall.
Friday​: Study for your spelling/vocabulary test. ​Don’t forget-- Test is on Monday!
Vocabulary List:
1. ​excess
Definition:​ a quantity much larger than is needed
Passage:​ If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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2. Abatement
Definition:​ an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
Passage:​ O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute
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3. Ample
Definition: ​more than enough in size or scope or capacity
Passage:​ So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
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4. Provident
Definition: ​careful in regard to your own interests
Passage: ​Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea
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5. Abjure
Definition:​ formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
Passage:​ ​A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.
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6. Mellow
Definition:​ ​become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
Passage:​ ​O that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is!
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7. Bounteous
Definition:​ ​given or giving freely
Passage: ​I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent.
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8. Exception
Definition:​ ​grounds for adverse criticism
Passage:​ By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights: your cousin, my
lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.
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9. modest
Definition:​ limited in size or scope
Passage: ​Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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10. Confine
Definition:​ ​place limits on
Passage​: ​Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am: these clothes are good enough
to drink in, and so be these boots too; an they be not, let them hang themselves in their
own straps.
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11. Prodigal
Definition:​ ​a recklessly extravagant consumer
Passage:​ ​Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats: he's a very fool and a
prodigal.
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12. Allay
Definition: ​lessen the intensity of or calm
Passage:​ ​for besides that he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that he hath the
gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
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13. Accost
Definition:​ ​speak to someone
Passage:​ ​You mistake, knight: accost is, front her, board her, woo her, assail her.
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14. revel
Definition:​ ​unrestrained merrymaking
Passage:​ ​I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques andrevels
sometimes altogether.
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15. Caper
Definition:​ ​jump about playfully
Passage:​ ​Let me see thee caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!
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