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 find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge,
and write what you
think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. I see thee yet, in form as palpable
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2. How is't with me
when every noise appalls me?
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3. Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second
cock.
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4. ...equivocates
him in a sleep and giving him the lie, leaves him.
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5. Fears and scruples shake us.
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6. What good could they pretend? They were suborned.
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Part II: Determining the Meaning
You have tried to figure out the
meanings of the vocabulary words for Act II.
Now match the vocabulary words to
their dictionary definitions.
If there are words for which you
cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and
by process of elimination, look
them up in a dictionary.
palpable appalls carousing equivocates
scruples suborned
1. Fills with dismay
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2. Avoids making an explicit
statement
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3. Conscience; morals
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4. Easily perceived
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5. Induced to commit an unlawful
act
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6. Drunken merrymaking
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