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Romeo & Juliet Vocab
Freshman (9) Vocab for all Acts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act 1:pernicious | Very Destructive |
| Act 1:prodigious | exciting amazement or wonder |
| Act 1:choler | Anger |
| Act 1: Disposition | Natural attitude/ manner toward things |
| Act 1: augmenting | to enlarge or increase |
| Act 1: boisterous | exuberant, high spirited |
| Act 1: assailing | to attack violently |
| Act 1: shrift | confession |
| Act 1: transgression | violation of a law |
| Act 1: portentous | foreshadowing of something to come (usually something evil) |
| Act 2: conjure | to summon up a spirit as if by magic |
| Act 2: consort | to associate |
| Act 2: prorogue | to postpone |
| Act 2: rancor | a continuing and bitter hate |
| Act 2: perjury | the telling of a lie while swearing to tell the truth |
| Act 2: invocation | a serious prayer or request for help |
| Act 2: variable | changeable |
| Act 2: jest | a mocking remark/ joke |
| Act 2:Wherefore | why |
| Act 2: Procure | to get |
| Act 3: prevail | to be victorious or triumphant |
| Act 3: beguile | charm or delight, often in order to deceive |
| Act 3: appertaining | to belong as a part, function, etc. |
| Act 3: effeminate | having qualities associated with women (weakness, delicacy, umanly, fragile) |
| Act 3: agile | quick and easy of movement |
| Act 3: garish | to bright, showy |
| Act 3: dismal | causing gloom or misery; dark, gloomy |
| Act 3: calamity | a great misfortune - disaster |
| Act 3:sojourn | stay briefly, live someplace temporarily |
| Act 3:abhors | shrinks from in disgust, hates greatly |
| Act 4: inundation | a flood |
| Act 4: pensive | thoughtful |
| Act 4: arbitrate | to settle, pass judgement |
| Act 4: martyr | one who suffers for a cause |
| Act 4: valor | bravery |
| Act 4: lament | grieve |
| Act 4: orisons | prayers |
| Act 4: provisions | condition |
| Act 4: abate | stop |
| Act 4: detest | hate deeply |
| Act 5: presage | foreshadow |
| Act 5: pestilence | plague |
| Act 5: quarantine | to contain due to illness |
| Act 5: inexorable | unstoppable |
| Act 5: vengeance | revenge |
| Act 5: persuse | look over |
| Act 5: ensign | flag or military officer |
| Act 5: paramour | lover |
| Act 5: inauspicious | ill-fated |
| Act 5: purge | remove |