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Romeo & Juliet Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pernicious | deadly, causing of death or serious injury |
| augment | to increase in size, amount, degree, or severity |
| propagate | to cause to extend to a broader area or large number, spread |
| assail | to attack violently with blows or words |
| inexorable | not capable of being persuaded by entreaty, relentless |
| portentous | ominous, relating to foreshadowing |
| conjure | to summon by invocation |
| consort | associate, group of singers |
| entreat | to plead with, beg |
| impute | to relate to a particular cause or source, attribute to the fault or responsibility to |
| repose | be at rest |
| procure | to get possession of, obtain |
| intercession | the act of intervening between 2 opposing parties |
| rancor | bitter, long lasting resentment |
| enmity | hatred |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a male |
| adversity | hardship, difficulty, misfortune |
| sojourn | a journey or trip |
| abhor | to loathe, to regard with extreme repugnance |
| inundation | overflow, to cover with water |
| foreboding | predicting harm or evil |
| arbitration | a decision or determination |
| prostrate | prone, lying flat, overcome |
| solace | comfort |
| beguile | to lead by deception, to trick |
| aside | line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on stage to hear |
| soliloquy | a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener |
| motif | a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work |