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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, IV

February 20, 2013
By Vocabulary.com (NY)Visual Thesaurus Moderator
This list covers some of the basic words in Shakespeare's play about the assassination of the titular Roman ruler. You can find our lists covering more difficult words here.

Here are links to our lists for the play: Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV, and Act V

Here are links to our lists for other plays by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream
consent
Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
valiant
But he's a tried and valiant soldier.
govern
His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.
levy
Are levying powers: we must straight make head:
disclose
How covert matters may be best disclosed,
receive
How he received you, let me be resolved.
gallant
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;
endure
I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,
wrangle
Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;
villain
What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,
urge
I should not urge thy duty past thy might;
fret
All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;
digest
You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
mirth
I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
vaunt
Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,
presume
Do not presume too much upon my love;
yoke
O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
earnest
When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,
chide
He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.
taper
How ill this taper burns!
expedition
Bending their expedition toward Philippi.
ripe
Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:
repose
Good night, and good repose.
apparition
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
commend
Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;

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