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WHHS Vocabulary #2
Romeo and Juliet #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |