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Romeo and Juliet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inauspicious | Not favorable |
| Warrant | Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior |
| Carrion | Dead or decaying flesh |
| Ascend | To go or move upward; rise. |
| Mutiny | Open rebellion against constituted authority, especially rebellion of sailors against superior officers. |
| Chastity | The condition or quality of being pure or chaste |
| Tyrant | An absolute ruler who governs without restrictions. |
| Posterity | Future generations. |
| Strife | Heated, often violent discussion, bitter conflict |
| Beshrew | To curse; to invoke evil upon |
| Amorous | strongly attracted or disposed to love |
| Beseeming | to be appropriate for; befit |
| Calamity | an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster. |
| Chide | to scold mildly so as to correct or improve; reprimand |
| Conjure | to summon a devil or spirit by magical or supernatural powers. |
| Conceit | A favorable and especially unduly high opinion of one’s own abilities or worth |
| Minion | A follower or dependent; teacher’s pet |
| Piteous | Demanding or arousing pity. |
| Idolatry | Blind or excessive worship of idols |
| Shrift | Confession to a priest |
| Forsworn | To renounce or repudiate under oath |
| Martyr | One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles |
| Obsequies | A funeral rite or ceremony |