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Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

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to summon by or as if by invocation or incantation

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conjure

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A hiding place; shelter

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covert

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Happy; please; desirous; willing

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fain

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To press for information; demand with persistence

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importuned

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Unfavorable; unlucky

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inauspicious

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Flooding; overwhelming

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inundation

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Warlike

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martial

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The jaws or throat of a voracious animal

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maw

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Prayers

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orisons

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Thoughtful; reflective

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pensive

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Harmful; damaging

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pernicious

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a soft, moist mass of material, typically of plant material or flour, applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth.

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poultice

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Sign; warning; foreshadowing

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presage

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Enormous; immense

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prodigious

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Bitterness; hatred; spite

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rancor

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Curse; plague

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scourge

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The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different

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semblance

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A tomb, grave, or burial place.

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sepulcher

19
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A temporary stay

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sojourn

20
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A plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.

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stratagems

21
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recognizable rhythm in a line of verse; regularly stresses and unstressed syllables

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meter

22
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refers to the combination of strong stress and weak stress that make up a line of verse

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foot/feet

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particular type of “foot” consisting of two syllables; stressed (/) followed by an unstressed (U)

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iamb

24
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ten syllable line with five iambs

(U/U/U/U/U/U/); Sound of a heartbeat; Used by Shakespeare Attractive to the ear and affect the listener

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iambic pentameter

25
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couplet that ends a speech or scene

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capping couplets

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when two lines of rhyming couplet are in iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplets

Honors English I (16 decks)

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