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R&J Vocab: Act I
English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Augment | to make greater or supplement |
| Boisterous | rowdy or rough |
| Valiant | courageous |
| Pernicious | very destructive or harmful |
| Portentous | dealing with a sign, forewarning, or omen |
| Posterity | future generations |
| Profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| Choler | anger, irritability |
| Virtuous | having excellent morals; righteous |
| Prodigious | extraordinary, marvelous, huge |
| Choler | "I mean, an we be in ___, we'll draw." |
| Valiant | "To move is to stir, and to be ___ is to stand" |
| Profaners | "___ of this neighbor-stained steel--" |
| Pernicious | "That quench the fire of you ___ rage" |
| Augmenting | "With tears ___ the fresh morning's dew," |
| Portentous | "Black and ___ must this humor prove" |
| Posterity | "Cuts beauty off from all ___" |
| Boist'rous | "Too rude, too ___ and it pricks like thorn." |
| Virtuous | "To be a ___ and well-governed youth." |
| Prodigious | "___ birth of love it is to me" |