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Shakespeare Definition Match — myVocabulary.com

  • These Definition Match vocabulary activities include vocabulary games and word puzzles with a vocabulary list. They are 1 of 8 free online word games.
  • The word puzzles contain Latin word roots or affixes, definitions and parts of speech. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • Common Core alignment to a Definition Match puzzle is to the key phrase "Precise Meaning". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c
Directions:

MATCH Shakespeare vocabulary words with proper definitions of the 18 words in the right hand column. Use the pull down Select bar to choose the correct letter for the Shakespeare vocabulary word activity.
When you hit Submit, you will get back the correct answers as well as the percentage score of correct answers.
Clue:

The Shakespeare vocabulary words come from activities that include Interactive Puzzles, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Search, and a Crossword.

Www.myvocabulary.com has 455 vocabulary word lists that can be accessed from the Word List menu bar. You have permission to make a copy of the Shakespeare vocabulary words.

Word List

1) resolution
2) tragedies
3) abstinence
4) soliloquy
5) drama
6) symbolism
7) revenge
8) imagination
9) mercy
10) ambition
11) conscience
12) infinite
13) bard
14) sonnet
15) comedies
16) cauldron
17) outrageous
18) inconstant

Definition List

A) A malicious retaliation for an injury or wrong; reprisal (noun)
B) Passing reasonable bounds of right or decency (adj.)
C) Without limits or bounds; endless (adj.)
D) Forbearance shown toward an enemy or other person; benevolence (noun)
E) Fickle; given to changing frequently without apparent reason: changeable (adj.)
F) Creative talent or ability; the act or power of forming a mental picture of something not present to the senses or perceived in reality (noun)
G) Theatrical art/literature with vivid conflicting emotions (noun)
H) Principles of moral good or bad that control or inhibit conduct, intentions or character (noun)
I) Humorous elements of drama or of literature (noun plural)
J) A large kettle or vat used for boiling (noun)
K) A gifted person who composed or recited poems with music (noun)
L) Desire to obtain or achieve success with exceptional effort (noun)
M) Self-restraint; self-denial (noun)
N) Completion, settlement or conclusion of conflict (noun)
O) A lone speech in a drama with disclosure of innermost thoughts (noun)
P) Poem of 14 lines expressive of a single idea (noun)
Q) Practice of representation by something else (noun)
R) The lamentable, fatal elements of drama/literature (noun plural)
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