Romeo And Juliet Vocab Flashcards

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Dexterity

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(Noun) skill in using the hands or body; agility; can also refer to mental agility or cleverness

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Vile

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(Adj) highly offensive; repulsive or disgusting

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Banish

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(Verb) to expel by decree; to push or send away

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Calamity

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(Noun) a great misfortune or disaster

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Prevail

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(Verb) to prove superior in strength or influence; to succeed or become dominant

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Reconcile

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(Verb) to become friendly with someone after a quarrel; to settle a dispute

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Abhor

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(Verb) to hate in the strongest possible way; to utterly detest or deplore

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Pensive

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(Adj) wistfully thoughtful; lost in thought, often with a tinge if sadness

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Vial

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(Noun) a small bottle

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Prostrate

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(Adj) lying flat on the ground; to cast oneself face down on the ground out of humility

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Shroud

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(Noun) a burial cloth laid over the body of a dead person

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Beguile

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(Verb) to influence by trickery, flattery, or deception; to amuse or entertain

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Amorous

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(Adj) inclined or predisposed to love

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Pestilence

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(Noun) a deadly or epidemic disease; something considered deathly or harmful

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Sepulcher

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(Noun) a burial vault, often used to bury people above ground

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