Romeo and Juliet Vocab #3

Question 1

harsh, grim or desolate, extremely simple or severe, dreary

Answer 1

stark

Question 2

a streching out due to lacking vitality and being completely overcome;
completely overcome, falling down in submission

Answer 2

prostration

Question 3

to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstatrive manner, to bemoan, to bewail;
mournful or sorrowful

Answer 3

lament

Question 4

depression of spirits, soberly thoughtful, pensive, despondent

Answer 4

melancholy

Question 5

funeral hymn, lament, a slow mournful musical composition

Answer 5

dirge

Question 6

something that foreshadows a future event, foreknowledge of the future; to predict, to foreshadow

Answer 6

presage

Question 7

extreme poverty; destitution, indigence, want

Answer 7

penury

Question 8

to send away with promptness or speed; quickness, haste, expediency

Answer 8

dispatch

Question 9

courteous and gracious, friendly: strong, sweetened aromatic medicine, liqueur

Answer 9

cordial

Question 10

to read or to examine, to read with thoroughnes or care, to observe carefully

Answer 10

peruse

Question 11

placed in a grave or tomb, buried, buried hastily

Answer 11

interred

Question 12

unfavorable, unfortune, ill predictions, ill omen, contrary to your welfare

Answer 12

inauspicious

Question 13

something that completely occupies or absorbs, preoccupies

Answer 13

engrossing

Question 14

to effectively oppose or stop, to prevent the occurence of, to frustrate, baffle, foil

Answer 14

thwart

Question 15

strictness, severity, or harshess in dealing with people, full severity of the law

Answer 15

rigor