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Romeo & Juliet Words
Full quote, word, and definition version
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are ______. Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled. | Beguiled; verb – charmed or enchanted |
| An if that the youth of my new interest love, Abate thy valour in the acting it. | Abate; verb – to decrease in force or intensity |
| To hear him named, and cannot come to him, To wreak the love I bore my cousin Upon his body that ______ it. | Abhors; verb – to regard with disgust or hatred |
| I’ll to the friar to know his remedy: If all else fail, myself have power to die, To make confession and to be ______. | Absolved; verb – freed from blame, guilt, or responsibility |
| I will set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of ______ stars. | Auspicious; adjective – favorable, promising success |
| A chapel! If the measure of thy joy Be heap’d like mine, and that thy skill be more To ______ the sweetness of thy passion… | Blazon; verb – to describe or proclaim vividly |
| Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too ______, and it pricks like thorn. | Boisterous; adjective – noisy, energetic, and rowdy |
| Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts, And thou art ______ to calamity. | Wedded; adjective – bound or attached (metaphorically joined with calamity) |
| Our solemn hymns to sullen ______ change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse. | Dirges; noun – mournful songs or laments for the dead |
| What torch is yond that vainly lends his light? To ______ them to the eyes. | Discern; verb – to detect or recognize something clearly |
| Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their ______. | Enmity; noun – active hatred or hostility |
| But old folks, many ______ as they were dead; Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. | Feign; verb – to pretend or give a false appearance |
| O fortune, fortune! all men call thee ______: If thou art ______, what dost thou with him. | Fickle; adjective – changeable or lacking consistency |
| That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the ______ sun. | Garish; adjective – overly vivid or bright in a disturbing way |
| Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, ______ with the dearest morsel of the earth. | Gorged; verb – greedily filled or stuffed |
| Night’s candles are burnt out, and ______ day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. | Jocund; adjective – cheerful and lighthearted |
| O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most ______ day, most woeful day. | Lamentable; adjective – deserving sorrow or regret |
| My leisure serves me, ______ daughter, now. | Pensive; adjective – deeply thoughtful, often in a sad or serious way |
| Noting this ______, to myself I said ‘An if a man did need a poison now…’ | Penury; noun – extreme poverty or destitution |
| What, ho! you men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your ______ rage! | Pernicious; adjective – harmful in a subtle or gradual way |
| Black and ______ must this humour prove, Unless good counsel may the cause remove. | Portentous; adjective – ominous or indicating something bad will happen |
| ______ birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. | Prodigious; adjective – unnatural, enormous, or monstrous |
| The date is out of such ______: We’ll have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf… | Prolixity; noun – excessive wordiness or long-windedness |
| Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt ______, to have it prest With more of thine. | Propagate; verb – to spread or increase |
| For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ ______ to pure love. | Rancour; noun – deep-seated resentment |
| Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy ______ cheeks for Rosaline! | Sallow; adjective – having a sickly, yellowish complexion |
| This trick may chance to ______ you, I know what: You must contrary me! | Scathe; verb – to harm or injure |
| That is no ______, sir, which is a truth; And what I spake, I spake it to my face. | Slander; noun – false spoken statement damaging to someone’s reputation |
| But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, But one thing to rejoice and ______ in. | Solace; noun – comfort in a time of grief |
| I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a ______ tale. | Tedious; adjective – boring, overly long or repetitive |
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