A man that fortune's buffets and rewards meaning

Hamlet Act Three Vocabulary Chart

Directions: In the context clue column, write down the context clue for the vocabulary word from the sentence. In the definition from context column, write your best idea of what the word means based on the context clue. In the last column, write the dictionary definition.

Vocabulary

Word

Context Structure

Context Clues

Definition from Context

Dictionary Definition

Visage (noun)

“Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,-- 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself”

Consummation (noun)

“That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;”

Orisons (noun)

“And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd”

Paradox (noun)

“Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.”

Calumny (noun)

“be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell.”

Temperance (noun)

“Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

Buffets (noun)

“A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please”

Purging (verb)

“Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd for his passage?”

Bulwark (noun)

“If damned custom have not brass'd it so That it is proof and bulwark against sense.”

Mandate (noun)

“Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery.”