Pre-AP English II: Othello Vocabulary Set #2

Write the definition of each vocabulary word in the space following the part of speech. Make sure the definition you choose matches the way the vocabulary word is used in the sentence from the text, below. Use a dictionary or dictionary.com!

• Bounteous (adj.)
• Cunning (n.)
• Discretion (n.)
• Err (v.)
• Hence (adv.)
• Languish (v.)
• Politic (adj.)
• Solicitor (n.)
• Suitor (n.)
• ’Twas (cont.)
• Warrant (v)

Emilia: Good madam, do, I warrant it grieves my husband / As if the cause were his (3.3.3-4)

Cassio: Bounteous madam, / Whatever shall come of Michael Cassio,/ He’s never anything but your true servant (3.3.7-8)

Desdemona: He shall in strangeness stand no farther off / Than in a politic distance. (3.3.12-13)

Desdemona: Therefore be merry, Cassio, / For thy solicitor shall rather die /Than give thy cause away (3.3.26-28)

Desdemona: Well, do your discretion. (3.3.34)

Othello: I do believe ’twas he. (3.3.40)

Desdemona: I have been talking with a suitor here, / A man that languishes in your displeasure (3.3.42-43)

Desdemona: For if he be not one that truly loves you / That errs in ignorance and not in cunning, / I have no judgment in an honest face. (3.3. 48-50)

Othello: Went he hence now? (3.3.51)

When you are confident you have the correct definitions, see me and you can complete the post-project quiz.