Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Act 4 Midsummer Vocab

conjunction = combined; joined
"We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top / And mark the musical confusion / Of hounds and echo in conjunction" (4.1.115).


enmity = hostility; hate
"I know you two are rival enemies / How comes this gentle concord in the world, / That hatred is so far from jealousy / To sleep by hate and fear no enmity?" (4.1.151).


expound = explain; develop
"Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" (4.1.217).

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