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Act I Vocab

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  1. sooth
    truth
  2. ado
    difficulty, trouble
  3. portly
    fatbellied; stately
  4. overpeer
    look down on
  5. mortifying
    self-denying; life-destroying
  6. jaundice
    result from excess of bile, which makes one pevish
  7. gudgeon
    a fish said to swallow anything
  8. latter hazard
    second venture
  9. presage
    forecast
  10. commodity
    goods, i.e. collatarel
  11. superfluity
    excess
  12. competency
    sufficiency
  13. imposition
    order, command
  14. ducats
    Venetian gold coins
  15. gratis
    without interest
  16. usance
    interest
  17. suffrance
    • 1. forbearance
    • 2. suffering
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Act I Vocab
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Vocab for Act I Merchant of Venice
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