Vocab for Loves Labours Lost

• Blog One
• Scythe--an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand
• Edict--a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority
• Paunches--a large and protruding belly; potbelly
• Immured--to enclose within walls

• Blog Two
• Beguile-- to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude
• Melancholy-- a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged
• Epitheton-- a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like, as “man's best friend” for “dog.”
• Reprobate--a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation

• Blog Three
• Desolation-- dreariness; barrenness
• Cupid's Butt-Shaft-- a blunt or barbless arrow.
• Extemporal-- extemporaneous; extempore
• Importunes-- to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence

• Blog Four
• Durance--incarceration or imprisonment
• Lieu-- place; stead
• Incony-- Unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate
• Remuneration--  something that remunerates; reward; pay

• Blog Five
• Thrasonical--boastful; vainglorious
• Verbosity--the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness
• Culled--to choose; select; pick
• Hornbook--a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read