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8th Grade WRITING
Homework Packet
Vocabulary from ​Twelfth Night - #2
Due Monday, April 17th, 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:​ (Thursday is a ½ day) Make a word waterfall.
Friday​: (No school) Study for your spelling/vocabulary test. ​Don’t forget-- Test is on
Monday!
Vocabulary List:
1. ​negligence
Definition: ​the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
Passage:​ You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the
continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
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2. abandon
Definition:​ the trait of lacking restraint or control
Passage:​ Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
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3. clamorous
Definition: ​conspicuously and offensively loud
Passage:​ Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
Rather than make unprofited return.
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4. prosper
Definition: ​make steady progress
Passage: ​Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
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5. transgress
Definition:​ commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
Passage:​ ​Any thing that's mended is but patched: virtue that transgresses is but
patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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6. infirmity
Definition:​ ​the state of being weak in health or body
Passage:​ ​God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better increasing your folly!
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7. discreet
Definition:​ ​marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
Passage: ​To be generous, guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those things for
bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets: there is no slander in an allowed fool, though
he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but
reprove.
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8. exquisite
Definition:​ ​delicately beautiful
Passage:​ Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty, -- I pray you, tell me if this
be the lady of the house, for I never saw her.
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9. profound
Definition:​ showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
Passage: ​No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not
that I play.
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10. nonpareil
Definition: ​model of excellence or perfection of a kind
Passage​: ​My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd
The nonpareil of beauty!
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11. dimension
Definition:​ ​a construct distinguishing objects or individuals
Passage:​ ​Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;
And in dimension and the shape of nature
A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;
He might have took his answer long ago.
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12. denial
Definition:​ ​the act of refusing to comply, as with a request
Passage:​ ​If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suffering, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would not understand it.
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13. reverberate
Definition:​ ​ring or echo with sound
Passage:​ ​Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!'
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14. fervor
Definition:​ ​feelings of great warmth and intensity
Passage:​ ​Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;
And let your fervor, like my master's, be
Placed in contempt!
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