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?