Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases:
"Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers:
RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4
Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers:
RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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An 64 word vocabulary list with definitions for As You Like It is arranged by Act.
Act I: 12 words
countenance = facial expression indicating mood or emotion; appearance
gentility = good birth and family
rankness = offensive coarseness; foulness
acquit = set free or discharge: release
requite = repay; to retaliate for: avenge
emulator = a striving to equal or excel; a rivaling
kindle = to set on fire: start burning; to stir up: arouse
dole = lament; to give out food, money or clothes for the needy
quintain = a post used to mark in tilting, a military exercise
albeit = although
purgation = cleansing, clearing of sin or guilt; to free from impurities
umber = a yellowish brown
Act II: 23 words
chiding = speaking disapprovingly of: scolding
burghers = townspeople, citizens; inhabitants
sequestered = cut off; set apart
languish = to lose strength or force: decline
invectively = condemning or criticizing bitterly
inquisition = a judicial or official inquiry or questioning
quail = cower in fear; shrink in dread
bonny = having a pleasing look or quality; charming
abhor = to feel extreme aversion to: loathe; reject
boisterous = noisily rough: rowdy; marked by exuberance
diverted = changed in direction: deflected; to amuse
doublet = close-fitting jacket
churlish = miserly
motley = of variegated color
chanticleer = name of the cock in the folk tale of Reynard the Fox
sans = without
galled = frayed by friction: rubbed raw
squandering = spending wastefully or extravagantly
embossed = ornamented by a raised pattern or design
mettle = quality of temperament or disposition; stamina and strength
mewling = crying feebly ; whimpering
feigning = pretending
effigies = images or likenesses
Act III: 17 words
expediently = appropriately quick without regard for ethics
civet = a short-legged mammal like a cat
cuckhold = man betrayed by his wife
quintessence = purest form; essential part of; typical example
synod = council
Gargantua = giant appearing in a tale by Frenchman Rabelais
cipher = zero; an insignificant person: nonentity
divers = various, different
quotidian = daily
accoutrements = accessory items of clothes
apish = extremely silly or affected
capricious = apt to change inclinations quickly; whimsical
dissembling = pretending; putting on an appearance of
cicatrice = scar
chide = scold
peevish = cross and complaining; unreasonably stubborn
quittance = a discharge from debt or obligation
Act IV: 2 words
sundry = various
phoenix = bird in legends that dies in fire and one is reborn
Act V: 10 words
heathen = an uncivilized or irreligious person
incontinent = lacking in self-restraint; unable to retain bodily discharge voluntarily
ditty = short simple song; poem
dulcet = pleasant sounding: melodious
atone = to make amends for
shrewd = sharp and clever
victualled = supplied with food; provisioned
insinuate = to influence subtly, indirectly and artfully
conjure = to beseech; to bring about as if by magic
Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Shakespeare plays:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
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Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for As You Like It written by William Shakespeare |
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