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Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

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Star-Crossed

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(ADJ) not favored by the stars

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Mutiny

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(N) a resistance to authority; revolt/rebellious

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Pernicious

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(ADJ) highly disruptive

syn: noxious

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Adversary

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(N) an opponent or rival enemy

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Fray

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(N) a fight

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Rapier

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(N) a long double sided sword/blade

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Solemnity

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(N) being solemn

serious tone for celebration

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Gall

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(N) bitterness of feeling
vexation

syn: rancor

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Prodigious

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(ADJ) abnormal or unlucky

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Conjure

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(V) to affect or influence as if by invocation or spell

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Wherefore

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(ADJ) why

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Dof

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(V) to remove or take off; to get rid of

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Bescreened

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(ADJ) to be screened/to be hidden

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Counsel

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(N) private, secret thoughts

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Enmity

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(N) a feeling or condition of hostility
hatred or malice

syn: rancor

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Prorogue

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(V) to discontinue a session

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Variable

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(ADJ) capable of being varied or changed

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Shrive

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(V) to hear the confession of

to absolve

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Vile

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(ADJ) evil, awful, abominable

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Gallant

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(ADJ) brave

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Banishment

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(N) exile (expulsion from a place)

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Calamity

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(N) disaster

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Prevail

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(V) to defeat, to win or overcome

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Reconcile

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(V) to make peace

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Commend

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(V) to pay respects; to praise

syn: extol, laud

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Abhor

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(V) to hate

syn: loathe

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Pensive

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(ADJ) musingly or dreamily thoughtful (melancholy/gloomy way)

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Vial

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(N) a small closed or close able vessel (a container for liquids)

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Prostrate

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(V/ADJ) to put with the face down

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Fester

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(V) to generate puss/ infection

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Shroud

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(N/V) burial cloth

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Distraught

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(ADJ) agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain

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Beguile

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(V) to cheat, swindle, or hoodwink

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Dirge

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(N) a long hymn of grief or lamentation

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Amorous

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(ADJ) strongly moved by love; loving

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Pestilence

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(N) a plague

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Sepulcher

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(N) a place of burial

syn: mausoleum

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Penury

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(N) extreme poverty

syn: indigence, destitution

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