The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona Glossary

Censure

To pass judgement on something or someone, usually with the intent to punish.

Deign

To accept in a condescending way as if it the acceptance had placed a great burden upon you.

Earnest

A pledge or token for a future promise of bestowing something upon someone.

Jerkin

A short jacket or coat.

Muse

Used in the verbal sense in the play, muse means to wonder. As a noun, muse can also mean a person (usually a woman) who provides artistic inspiration.

Quaintly

Although quaint is typically used today to mean something old-fashioned or outdated but still possessed with charm, in the play quaintly is used to describe something done cleverly.

Recking

To provide care for something or someone.

Hinder

Create difficulties for someone or something.

Dearth

Scarcity or lack of something.

Trenched

Used to described something that is carved.

Unadvised

Rather than an action undertaken after receiving specific advice not to, in this usage unadvised becomes synonymous with inadvertent; a term used to describe an action done with a certain careless lack of intention.

Weeds

Clothing or the garments a person is wearing.

Entreat

Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.

Mirth

Amusement.

Vanquish

Defeat thoroughly.

Dispatch

Send off to a destination for a purpose.

Pestilence

A fatal epidemic disease.

Hearken

Listen.

Homely

Unattractive in appearance.

Fealty

Formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord.