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SAT Vocabulary: Bad Reputations

SAT Vocabulary: Bad Reputations. Ignoble: Of low character Licentious: lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint. Malevolent: having or exhibiting ill-will Malicious: deliberately harmful Miscreant: a villain Nefarious: Extremely wicked or villainous Notoriety: ill fame

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SAT Vocabulary: Bad Reputations

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  1. SAT Vocabulary: Bad Reputations • Ignoble: Of low character • Licentious: lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint. • Malevolent: having or exhibiting ill-will • Malicious: deliberately harmful • Miscreant: a villain • Nefarious: Extremely wicked or villainous • Notoriety: ill fame • Pugnacious: combative in nature; belligerent • Reprehensible: blameworthy • Ruffian: a tough or rowdy person

  2. SAT Vocabulary– Speaking of words • Aphorism: a tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion • Colloquial: Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language; informal • Misnomer: an error in naming a person or place • Malapropism: ludicrous misuse of a word • Neologism: a new word or expression • Obfuscate: to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to understand • Recondite: not easily understood; abstruse • Succinct: characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse • Terse: brief and to the point • Verbose: using or containing an excessive amount of words; wordy

  3. Thinking ahead… • Before our vocabulary activity, start connecting some of the words with characters from Much Ado About Nothing. • Consider the word miscreant? Nefarious?

  4. Do any of the characters in the play strike you as being pugnacious or malicious? • So far in the story, is there a character you would describe as being reprehensible?

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