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WHHS Vocabulary #2
Romeo and Juliet #2
Question | Answer |
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invocation | a calling upon a greater power such as God or a spirit for help |
inauspicious | showing little or no promise of success |
flourish | to wave threateningly |
forfeit | lose or lose the right to by an error or crime |
assail | attack violently |
sepulcher | a stone tomb or monument in which a dead person is laid or buried |
calamity | an event causing great and sudden damage or distress |
interred | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
disparagment | regard or represent as being of little worth; scorn |
augment | make greater by addition; increase |
enmity | the state of being an enemy; mutual hatred |
penury | extreme poverty |
canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
languish | to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade, to lose vigor and vitality |
sallow | (of a person’s face or complexion) of a yellowish or pale brown colour. |
asunder | into separate parts, pieces |
carrion | dead and decaying flesh |
stratagem | deceptive scheme or maneuver |
chastity | abstention from all sexual relationships |
discreet | capable of keeping a secret |