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List 3: R&J
Romeo and Juliet vocab
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |