Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
Star-Crossed
(ADJ) not favored by the stars
Mutiny
(N) a resistance to authority; revolt/rebellious
Pernicious
(ADJ) highly disruptive
syn: noxious
Adversary
(N) an opponent or rival enemy
Fray
(N) a fight
Rapier
(N) a long double sided sword/blade
Solemnity
(N) being solemn
serious tone for celebration
Gall
(N) bitterness of feeling
vexation
syn: rancor
Prodigious
(ADJ) abnormal or unlucky
Conjure
(V) to affect or influence as if by invocation or spell
Wherefore
(ADJ) why
Dof
(V) to remove or take off; to get rid of
Bescreened
(ADJ) to be screened/to be hidden
Counsel
(N) private, secret thoughts
Enmity
(N) a feeling or condition of hostility
hatred or malice
syn: rancor
Prorogue
(V) to discontinue a session
Variable
(ADJ) capable of being varied or changed
Shrive
(V) to hear the confession of
to absolve
Vile
(ADJ) evil, awful, abominable
Gallant
(ADJ) brave
Banishment
(N) exile (expulsion from a place)
Calamity
(N) disaster
Prevail
(V) to defeat, to win or overcome
Reconcile
(V) to make peace
Commend
(V) to pay respects; to praise
syn: extol, laud
Abhor
(V) to hate
syn: loathe
Pensive
(ADJ) musingly or dreamily thoughtful (melancholy/gloomy way)
Vial
(N) a small closed or close able vessel (a container for liquids)
Prostrate
(V/ADJ) to put with the face down
Fester
(V) to generate puss/ infection
Shroud
(N/V) burial cloth
Distraught
(ADJ) agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain
Beguile
(V) to cheat, swindle, or hoodwink
Dirge
(N) a long hymn of grief or lamentation
Amorous
(ADJ) strongly moved by love; loving
Pestilence
(N) a plague
Sepulcher
(N) a place of burial
syn: mausoleum
Penury
(N) extreme poverty
syn: indigence, destitution
