In class: vocabulary quiz.
puns copy of handout below. If you are absent, complete the assignment.
Puns
"A Play on Words"
Using a word or words that have more than 1 meaning.
Examples:
1. I recently spent money on detergent to unclog my kitchen sink. It was money down the drain.
2. Our social studies teacher says that her globe means the world to her.
3. A jury is never satisfied with the verdict. The jury always returns it.
4. Sir Lancelot once had a very bad dream about his horse. It was a knight mare.
5. A dog not only has a fur coat but also pants.
6. Today I've got a pressing engagement. I must go to the cleaners.
7. The principal part of a horse is the mane, of course.
8. Having lots of good cookbooks only makes sense. They contain such stirring events.
9. If you want to make a pun from dunlop. Then lop off the lop and the pun is dun.
10. I used to be twins. My mother has a picture of me when I was two.
11. I work as a baker because I knead dough.
12. What is the difference between a conductor and a teacher?
The conductor minds the train and a teacher trains the mind.
AND…
1.I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
4. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
5. There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.
6. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
7. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
8. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said 'No change yet'.
9. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
10. The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
There are many puns. Think of words or phrases that sound similar to others.
Using the patterns above, you are to write two puns. In case you need help getting started, here are some suggestions:
in Seine denial (ne nile)
Taiwan (tie one) antifreeze (aunty frees)
newly weds (newly webs) defeat (de feet)
Tylenol (tile and all) liability (lie ability)
patients (virtue/doctors' patients) optical illusion (optical Aleutian)
appeal (a peel)
Lettuce (let us)
seasons (salt and pepper or Holiday)
ice day/nice day
well
sew/so
comb (rooster's comb/people's comb)
Due on Monday: read all of Act 2. carefully, making sure your have familiarized yourself well with the soliloquy that closes the second act.
Questions? let me know before Monday.
Handout of vocabulary 2 DUE FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
O, What A Rogue And Peasant Slave Am I (Spoken by Hamlet)
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann'd,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing; no, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
Ha!
'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion!
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: and the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
More relative than this: the play 's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Below is a copy of vocabulary 2, which is due at the beginning of class Friday 30 September
Vocabulary 2 definitions
accost- verb-to approach or speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way; approach, confront
animadversion – noun- a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval; rebuke, reproof
avid – adj- desirous or something to the point of greed; eager; keen, enthusiastic
brackish – adj – having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink; briny, saline
celerity – adj – swiftness, rapidity of motion or action; promptness, alacrity, speed
devious – adj- staying from the straight or direct course; acting in a shifty or underhanded way; tricky,
roundabout, sly, artful
gambit – noun – in chess an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to
gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type; ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver
halcyon –noun – calm, peaceful, happy, golden, prosperous; tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
histrionic – adj – theatrical, artificial, melodramatic; affected, stagy
incendiary –adj- deliberately setting or causing fire or strife; inflammatory, provocative
maelstrom – adj- a whirlpool of great size and violence- a situation resembling a whirlpool in
violence or destruction; vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult
myopic –adj- nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lack of foresight or
discernment; shortsighted
overt –adj- open, not hidden; expressed or revealed; clear, obvious, manifest, patent
pejorative – adj – tending to make worse, expressing disapproval; derogatory; belittling
propriety –noun – the state of being proper or appropriate; fitness, correctness, decorum
sacrilege- noun- improper or disrespectful treatment of something considered sacred, desecration, profanation, defilement
summarily – adverb – without delay or formality; concisely; promptly, abrubtly
suppliant – adj – asking humbly and earnestly;
talisman – noun – an object that serves as a charm or is believed to have magical powers.
undulate – verb – to move in waves or a wavelike motion, ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
Vocabulary 2, exercise 2. Choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences. Make sure to use the correct verb tense or plural as needed.
1. Although a heavy snowfall was not expected, the highway department responded with surprising __________________________.
2. Many innocent people caught in the ______________________ of the revolution lost their lives and property.
3. The nobleman was ____________________ by the beggars on his way to the castle.
4 The interrogator used ____________________ methods to try to get the suspect to inciminate himself.
5 The baseball fans began to _____________________ as they cheered, so that they appeared to move like a wave.
6 The social worker questioned the ________________________ of the police’s request to see confidential records.
7 The shipwrecked passengers on the life raft became ill after drinking _____________________ water.
8 The woman often spoke of the ____________________ days of her youth.
9 He made a ______________________ address to the parole board, asking for an early release.
10. The arsonist planted a(n) __________________________ bomb in the basement of the store.
11 The _____________________ foreign policy of the last administration led to serious problems with
our allies.
12 Upon receiving his award, the young actor made a(n) _____________________ speech.
13. The anthropologist was accused of committing a __________________________ when she
disturbed an ancient burial ground.
14. The lawyer stepped over the line when he used a _____________________ term in referring to the defendant.
15. Many people do not believe that rabbit’s feet and other _________________________bring good
luck.
16. The inexperienced filmmaker was disheartened by the _________________________ of the film critic.
17. Asking an interesting stranger about his or her job is a popular ___________________ at a party.
18 In order for congress to declare war, the president must demonstrate a(n) _______________ threat.
19 As soon as there was evidence of criminal wrong doing, the official was ______________________ ousted from his post.
20. Most writers are also ________________ readers who have loved books since childhood.
Vocabulary 2, exercise 3 Provide either the synonym or antonym for the underlined word.
Synonyms
1. a tireless petitioner ____________________________
2. a lucky amulet ______________________________
3. the vortex of public opinion _____________________________
4. ripple in the current _____________________________
5. was taken in by her stratagem _____________________________
6.outraged by the desecration ____________________________
7. apologized for his
unnecessary rebuke _____________________________
8. swam in the briny water ____________________________
9. abruptly resigned from the cabinet _____________________________
10. behaved with her usual decorum _____________________________
11. memories of our serene beginnings _________________________
12. confronted the thief at the door ________________________
13. completed the job with alacrity _______________________
14. their derogatory references to the past _________________________
15. took an indirect root _________________________
Antonyms
16. identified the peacemaker _________________________
17. make a very low-key plea for mercy ______________________
18. one of the most reluctant participants _________________________
19. known for farsighted thinking ____________________________
20. took secret action to avoid a crisis ___________________________
Vocab 2, exercise 1. Choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences. Make sure to use the correct verb tense or plural as needed
1 To our dismay we discovered that the water we had worked so hard to bring to the surface was too
_______________________ for human consumption.
2. As an employee of the local polling service last summer, it was my job to ______________________ people
on the street and ask them questions.
3. Many a rich southern planter saw all his resources swallowed up in the _________________________ of the
Civil War.
4. After the prisoner had been found guilty of treason, he was led before the firing squad and
___________________ executed.
5. Saying that “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is not an effective response to their
_____________________________ on your conduct.
6. During the rainy season, the highway sank at so many points that its surface began to
_________________________ like the track of a roller coaster.
7. I stand before you an abject _____________________, hoping against hope for your forgiveness.
8. My brother is such a(n) ________________________ collector of toy soldiers that I sometimes think our
house has been invaded by a pint-sized army.
9. The suffix ling often has a _______________________ connotation, as in the word princeling derived from
prince.
10. On the return trip, we cut straight across the meadows rather than taking the
more________________________ path along the river.
11. In grandmother’s day the standards of _________________________ required that a young lady wear a hat
and gloves when she went out in public.
12. The _______________________ in which he accepted out invitation to dinner suggested that he was badly
in need of a good meal.
13. The tons of ____________________________ material ignited and turned the waste disposal plant into a
towering inferno.
14. In the eyes of most Americans, people who spit or burn the flag are guilty of an intolerable _____________.¬¬¬¬¬
15. We looked back at those ____________________________ years before the war as a kind of “golden age”
in our history.
16. Any book on chess strategy usually discusses the standard opening moves, such as the “knight’s”
_____________________________.
17. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a(n) _______________ act of war.
18. Down in the old square, a wrinkled old peasant was selling charms and ____________________ to warn off
the evil eye.
19. Her temper tantrum was nothing more than a (n) ________________________ outburst.
21. Her pale face, hunched shoulders and _______________ stare showed that she had spent her life pouring over old books and documents.
Vocabulary 2, exercise 4 Circle the correct word for each sentence.
1. Her reckless words had an (incendiary, overt) effect on the already large crowd and large-scaled rioting
ensued.
2. He is the kind of person who is not concerned with real moral values but simply with appearances and
(celerity, propriety).
3. He regarded his Phi Beta Kappa key as a (animadversion, talisman) that would open him all doors and win
him universal acceptance.
4. After years of failure to sell a single story, the young writer described himself bitterly as a(n) ( pejoratives,
avid ) collector of rejection slips.
5. She was buffeted about in a veritable (gambit, maelstrom) of emotions caused mainly by her own
dissatisfaction with herself.
6. His methods were so complicated and his purposes so (avid, devious) that we were not sure whether he was
spying on the enemy or us.
7. Without even considering the new evidence that I was about to present, they (summarily, deviously) denied
my appeal to reopen the case.
8. In an age when the United States has truly global responsibilities, we can ill afford leaders with (myopic,
pejorative) points of view.
9. The adoring fan regarded my negative comment about his favorite singer as tantamount to (maelstrom,
sacrilege).
10. I certainly do not claim that my performance in office was beyond critics, but I deeply resent
(animadversions, maelstroms) on my honesty.
11. Although politicians must have some ability to dramatize themselves, it is very easy to overdo the
(proprieties, histrionics).
12. As the defendant left the courtroom, he was (accosted, gambited) by a group of reporters looking for his
reaction to the verdict.
13. Walt tends to react slowly, but when he feels his own interests are at stake, he can react with (myopia,
celerity).
14. Since the word appeasement is associated with disastrous concessions to Adolf Hitler, it has acquired a(n)
(pejorative, overt) connotation.
15. John Masefield’s poem “Sea Fever” has an (avid, undulating) rhythm that actually gives one the feeling of
being on a rolling ship.
16. “His acts of defiance have been so (myopic, overt) and premeditated that I have no choice but to fire him,”
she said sadly.
17. Instead of imbibing the (brackish, suppliant) waters of superstition, let us refresh ourselves with long
draughts of common sense.
18. “I realize that this type of (gambit, sacrilege) has its risks,” she said, “but I expect it to pay off handsomely
in the end.
19. Nary a ripple disturbed the (halcyon, brackish) calm of the sea on that glorious summer afternoon.
20. The infatuated school boy, in one of his more restrained expressions, described himself as a (suppliant,
sacrilege) on the altar of love.
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