Histrionics are when someone is overly dramatic in an attempt to persuade others. This can be seen in Mark Antony's speech.
Emerson wrote, "What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text." An oracle is someone who can tell the future.
Emerson wrote, "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names." Capitulate is to submit or surrender to someone or something.
Emerson wrote, "Their rage is decorous." This word means someone who has dignity and good taste in manners and conduct.
Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." He is referring to something people dread, but literally it is a goblin.
Emerson wrote, "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral." Ephemeral means something that lasts for a very short period of time.
Emerson writes, "Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade." Expiation is compensation for a wrong; basically, it is an atonement.
Emerson writes, "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner." Nonchalance is when someone is indifferent or overly casual to someone / something.
