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Romeo and Juliet .
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pernicious | adj- Having a harmful effect, esp. in a gradual or subtle way. |
| portentous | adj- Done in a pompously or overly solemn manner. |
| importune | v- Ask (someone) pressingly and persistently for or to do something |
| wanton | n- A sexually immodest or promiscuous woman; a playful person |
| profane | v- Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect. |
| enmity | n- a feeling or condition of hostility |
| perjury | n- the offence committed by a witness in judicial proceedings who, having been lawfully sworn or having affirmed, wilfully gives false evidence |
| perverse | adj- willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary. |
| impute | v- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source |
| rancor | n- bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice. "To turn your household's rancor to pure love." |
| knave | n- an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person. nurse- "Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills..." |
| feign | v- to put on an appearance of; act Juliet-"But old folks, many feign as they were dead." |
| effeminate | adj- (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy. Romeo-"Thy beauty hath made me effeminate." |
| agile | adj- quick and well-coordinated in movement Benvolio-"His agile arms beats down their fatal points." |
| beguiled | v- cheated Juliet-"Poor ropes, you are beguiled" |
| jocund | adj- cheerful; merry; gay; blithe; glad Romeo-"jocund day" he's about to leave her room |
| wrought | v- to do work; labor Capulet-"Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?" |
| inundation | n- flooding; flow Paris-"to stop the inundation of her tears" |
| prorogue | v- postpone nothing can prorogue the marriage |
| surcease | v- stop "pulse will surcease" |
| orison | n- prayer Juliet needs orisons because her actions are full of sin |
| culled | v- chosen Juliet has culled her necessities for the wedding day |
| dirge | n- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead. Capulet's saying the songs change to dirges for Juliet |
| presage | v- to forecast Romeo-"my dreams presage some joyful news at hand" |
| penury | n- extreme poverty Romeo saw the apothecary's penury |
| pestilence | n- a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. |
| obsequies | n- a funeral rite or ceremony. |
| inexorable | adj- unyielding; unalterable |
| peruse | v- to survey or examine in detail. |
| inauspicious | adj- boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable |
| sepulcher | n- a tomb, grave, or burial place. |
| contagion | n- the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact. |
| dire | adj- causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible |
| scourge | n- a cause of affliction or calamity |
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