Monday

1. Monday • Usurp - seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession • What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,Together with that fair and warlike formIn which the majesty of buried DenmarkDid sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak! • Moiety- one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe • Against the which, a moiety competentWas gaged by our king; which had return'dTo the inheritance of Fortinbras,Had he been vanquisher; • Portentous - of momentous or ominous significance • I think it be no other but e'en so:Well may it sort that this portentous figureComes armed through our watch; so like the kingThat was and is the question of these wars.

2. Tuesday • Harbinger -something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone • And even the like precurse of fierce events,As harbingers preceding still the fatesAnd prologue to the omen coming on,Have heaven and earth together demonstratedUnto our climatures and countrymen. • Partisan - a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries • Shall I strike at it with my partisan? • Hallowed - worthy of religious veneration • Some say that ever 'gainst that season comesWherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,The bird of dawning singeth all night long:And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

3. Wednesday • Auspicious – predicting favorable circumstances and good luck • Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,The imperial jointress to this warlike state,Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--With an auspicious and a dropping eye,With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--Taken to wife: • Filial - relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring • Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,To give these mourning duties to your father:But, you must know, your father lost a father;That father lost, lost his, and the survivor boundIn filial obligation for some termTo do obsequious sorrow: • Obsequious - attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner • 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,To give these mourning duties to your father:But, you must know, your father lost a father;That father lost, lost his, and the survivor boundIn filial obligation for some termTo do obsequious sorrow: but to perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness;

4. Thursday • Retrograde – • moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction • Jocund – • full of or showing high-spirited merriment • Discourse – • extended verbal expression in speech or writing

5. Friday • Truant - absent without permission • A truant disposition, good my lord. • Countenance - the appearance conveyed by a person's face • A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. • Tenable - based on sound reasoning or evidence • I pray you all,If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,Let it be tenable in your silence still;And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,Give it an understanding, but no tongue:

6. Monday • Besmirch - smear so as to make dirty or stained • Perhaps he loves you now,And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirchThe virtue of his will: but you must fear,His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; • Prodigal - reckless wasteful • The chariest maid is prodigal enough,If she unmask her beauty to the moon. • Libertine - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained • Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,And recks not his own rede.

7. Tuesday • Unfledged - young and inexperienced • Do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. • Censure - harsh criticism or disapproval • Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. • Husbandry - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock • Neither a borrower nor a lender be;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

8. Wednesday • Parley - a negotiation between enemies • Set your entreatments at a higher rateThan a command to parley. • Beguile - attract; cause to be enamored • Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,Not of that dye which their investments show,But mere implorators of unholy suits,Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,The better to beguile. • Traduce - speak unfavorably about • This heavy-headed revel east and westMakes us traduced and tax'd of other nations.

9. Thursday • Canonize - treat as a sacred person • Let me not burst in ignorance; but tellWhy thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,Have burst their cerements. • Sovereignty - royal authority; the dominion of a monarch • What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,Or to the dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o'er his base into the sea,And there assume some other horrible form,Which might deprive your sovereignty of reasonAnd draw you into madness? • Adulterate - mixed with impurities • Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast.

10. Friday • Enmity - a state of deep-seated ill-will • And in the porches of my ears did pourThe leperous distilment; whose effectHolds such an enmity with blood of manThat swift as quicksilver it courses throughThe natural gates and alleys of the body. • Pernicious - exceedingly harmful • O most pernicious woman! • Antic - ludicrously odd • How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.