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Romeo & Juliet Vocab
Freshmen English - Fader
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pernicious | destructive |
| Prodigious | exciting, amazement |
| Choler | the quality or state of being bilious - anger |
| Disposition | the tendency of something to act in a certain manner under given circumstances - Manner/attitude |
| augment (ing) | to enlarge or increase |
| boisterous | noisily rough, exuberant |
| assail (ing) | to attach violently with words or blows |
| shrift | confession |
| transgression | a sin that has been committed or a law that has been broken |
| portentous | indicating civil to come; threatening, foreshadowing for evil |
| conjure | magic, summon up a spirit |
| consort | associate |
| prorogue | postpone |
| rancor | continuing and bitter hate |
| perjury | telling of a lie, swearing to tell the truth |
| invocation | pray (serious) request for help |
| variable | changeable |
| jest | making remark, joke |
| wherefore | why |
| procure | to get |
| prevail | to win |
| beguile | to deceive |
| appertain (ing) | rightfully belonging to |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities |
| agile | to move quickly and easily |
| garish | show, flashy, or gaudy |
| dismal | causing disparity lacking merit |
| calamity | disaster |
| sojourn | to live somewhere temporarily |
| abhors | to hate violently |
| inundation | an overflowing |
| pensive | in thought |
| arbitrate | to settle differences between 2 parties |
| martyr | a person who dies, suffers, or makes a sacrifice for a cause |
| valor | personal bravery |
| lament | expressing grief / sorrows |
| orisons | prayers |
| provision | a supply or preparation |
| abate | to lessen or end |
| detest | worthy of being hated |
| presage | an omen |
| pestilence | a destructive, swiftly spreading disease |
| quarantine | to restrain a disease |
| inexorable | unmovable, even by urgent begging |
| vengeance | inflicting punishment or pain out of revenge |
| peruse | to read leisurely |
| ensign | a flag, badge or emblem |
| paramour | a secret lover |
| inauspicious | not conducive to success; unpromising |
| purge | promising future failure or bad luck |