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English "Romeo and Juliet Acts IV & V" Flashcards

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To dress or decorate
Adorn
v.

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Array

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To reduce in degree or intensity
To put an end to
v.

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Abate

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To lead by deception; hoodwink; to trick

v.

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Beguile

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A stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed

n.

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Bier

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A slow, solemn and mournful piece of music

n.

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Dirge

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Agitated with doubt or mental conflict

adj.

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Distraught

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To generate pus; to rot; to putrefy

v.

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Fester

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Stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
Lying flat
adj.

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Prostrate

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One that receives or contains something; a container

n.

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Receptacle

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A burial garment
To cover for protection; to conceal
n. or v.

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Shroud

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To loathe; regard with extreme repugnance; hate

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Abhor

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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
n.

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Apothecary

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Strongly moved by love; enamored

adj.

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Amorous

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To join on a secret agreement to do an unlawful act
Scheme
v.

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Conspire

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To form in the mind
To invent
Conceive
v.

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Devise

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To arrange
To set readiness
To put into place
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Dispose

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Villain
One who has committed a felony (serious crime)
n.

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Felon

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To deposit a corpse in the earth or in a tomb

v.

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Inter

18
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An illicit lover

n.

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Paramour

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A place of burial; a tomb

n.

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Sepulcher

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Tiresome because of length or dullness; boring; our English class :)
adj.

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Tedious

21
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Unpleasant to taste or smell; disagreeable

adj.

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Unsavory

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“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower…”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Juliet
Friar Laurence
She will do anything to not marry Paris

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“Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take this vial…Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes to rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Friar Laurence
Juliet
The potion he gives her will make her look dead but she must drink it when she is alone at night

24
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“Pardon, I beseech you! Henceforth I am ever ruled by you.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Juliet
Lord Capulet
She wants his forgiveness and she will be obedient to him

25
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“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; my daughter he hath wedded.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Lord Capulet
Juliet
Death has taken over his life and married his daughter

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“Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? How doth my lady?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Romeo
Balthasar
He wants to know what information he has on Juliet and if he has a letter from Friar Laurence

27
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“My poverty but not my will consents.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Apothecary
Romeo
He doesn’t want to give the poison but he knows he needs the money so he will

28
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“Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice, but full of charge, of dear import; and the neglecting it may so much danger.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

A

Friar Laurence
Friar John
He is upset that Friar John didn’t get the letter to romeo because it contained valuable information

29
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“The boy gives warning something doth approach.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

A

Paris
Himself
He must hide because his watchmen whistled to signal someone is coming

30
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“Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred minster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

A

Romeo
Juliet
Death is keeping her beautiful because he loves her

31
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“This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

A

Juliet
Herself/ her dagger
She is the sheath to the dagger she will kill herself with

32
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“Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

A

Lord Montague
Prince Escalus
His wife died of a broken heart over Romeo’s banishment

33
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“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Prince Escalus
Himself
No story is sadder than the story than the one of Romeo and Juliet

34
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What accident or chance meeting occurs in Act IV

A

Paris and Juliet at Friar Laurence’s cell

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