Vocab for Shakespeare's Sonnets 18 & 116
Temperate - Describes the climate as mild or modern; not extreme (adj)
Lease - a period of temporary ownership (noun)
Complexion - the skin and features of the face (noun)
Declines - to move in a downward direction (verb) - aging
Untrimmed - made or left plain, unadorned or disorderly (adj) - appearance
Impediments - things that block or get in the way (noun) - Obstacles
Alters: makes different without completely changing (verb) - adjust clothing (jeans)
Tempests - strong or severe storm (noun)
Bark - a small boat (noun)
Compass - Range, usually expressed in a curved or circular pattern (noun)
Poetic Devices
Internal Rhyme - a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next (noun)
Vocab 1
Word Definition Example
Immerse (v)
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To involve deeply; absorbed
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Being really into a book
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Forage (v)
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To wander or go in search of provisions.
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Looking for food in forest
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Alchemy (n)
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Turning something of no value into something of value.
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Conscious (adj)
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Fully aware of something or sensitive to something.
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Aware of surroundings when out and about.
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Karmic (n)
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Action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation
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Bull fighter being impaled by bull´s horn.
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Ingenuity (n)
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The quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful: inventiveness
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Straw
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Folly (n)
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The state or quality of being foolish.
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Folly Architecture
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Confinement (n)
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The state of being confined, shut up, or keeped in; prevent from leaving because of imprisoned, illness, disciplined
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Imprisoned
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Unprecedented (adj)
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Without previous instant; never been known or experienced before; unexampled or unparallel
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9/11; no one has ever experienced this before
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Fauna (n)
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Animals of a particular place or particular region; period considered as a whole
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Opaque (adj)
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Doesn't let light in; something to hard to understand
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Car´s tinted windows
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Ignorant (n)
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The state or fact of being ignorant; not knowing something
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Fleeting (adj)
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Passing swiftly/quickly
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Youth, beauty
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Stake (n)
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A monetary (money) or commercial interest, investment share or involvement in something
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Give a company money to get started.
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Algreculter (n)
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The science, the art, the ocupation of either cultivsting the land, raiseing crops, feeding, breeding, raising livestock; farming
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Farming
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Vocab 2
Words Definition Example
Atavistic (adj)
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Related to or characterized by returning to something ancient.
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Birds beaks reverting to the ways they were shaped in ancient times.
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Cornucopia (n)
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Plenty; a horn containing food/drinks; a symbol of abundance
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Intrepid (adj)
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Resolutely fearless; dauntless
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A male lion, not afraid of anything
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Omnivore (n)
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One that eats all, both plants and animals.
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Humans, bears
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Distinction (n)
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Recognizing or seeing and taking notes between differences
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Bathroom signs at restaurants. Woman from men.
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Terrestrial (adj)
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Anything that represents the earth. Distinct from other planets or land from water.
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Water turtles and land turtles
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Anthropologist (n)
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Person who specializes in the study of human beings
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Anthro- greek root meaning human
Ology- the study of
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Predispose (v)
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To give an inclination or tendency to do something beforehand.
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Do well in school because you like to read.
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Prodigious (adj)
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Extraordinary in size
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A mountain
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Existential (adj)
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Pertaining to the state of existing or being
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Inevitable (adj)
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Unable to be avoided or escaped
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Death and taxes
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Unassailed (adj)
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Not attacked or assaulted
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Piece
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Paradox (n)
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A statement that contradicts itself but could also be true
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Quaint
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Having an old fashion attractiveness or charm
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A cottage
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Apotheosis (n)
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The elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
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Brook to Josh
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