Romeo And Juliet Vocab Flashcards
Dexterity
(Noun) skill in using the hands or body; agility; can also refer to mental agility or cleverness
Vile
(Adj) highly offensive; repulsive or disgusting
Banish
(Verb) to expel by decree; to push or send away
Calamity
(Noun) a great misfortune or disaster
Prevail
(Verb) to prove superior in strength or influence; to succeed or become dominant
Reconcile
(Verb) to become friendly with someone after a quarrel; to settle a dispute
Abhor
(Verb) to hate in the strongest possible way; to utterly detest or deplore
Pensive
(Adj) wistfully thoughtful; lost in thought, often with a tinge if sadness
Vial
(Noun) a small bottle
Prostrate
(Adj) lying flat on the ground; to cast oneself face down on the ground out of humility
Shroud
(Noun) a burial cloth laid over the body of a dead person
Beguile
(Verb) to influence by trickery, flattery, or deception; to amuse or entertain
Amorous
(Adj) inclined or predisposed to love
Pestilence
(Noun) a deadly or epidemic disease; something considered deathly or harmful
Sepulcher
(Noun) a burial vault, often used to bury people above ground