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List 3: R&J
Romeo and Juliet vocab
Word | Definition |
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Gallant | Brave and noble |
Fray | Noisy fight |
Martial | Military |
Agile | Quick and easy of movement |
Exile | Banish |
Tedious | Tiresome and boring |
Eloquence | Speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive |
Fickle | Changeable |
Abhors | Detests, intensely dislikes |
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. |
monologue | a part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone; soliloquy. |
aside | a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience. |
plague | an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence |
garish | crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration. |
tedious | long and tiresome |
banishment | exile |
sojourn | a temporary stay |
discords | lack of concord or harmony between persons or things |
pomegranate | a seeded fruit |