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

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

Thinking ahead… Before our vocabulary activity, start

connecting some of the words with characters from Much Ado About Nothing.

Consider the word miscreant? Nefarious?

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?