Romeo and Juliet Vocab Act 4-5

Question 1

cull

Answer 1

to choose or select

Question 2

cunning

Answer 2

skillful

Question 3

entreat

Answer 3

to beg

Question 4

immoderately

Answer 4

excessively

Question 5

inundate

Answer 5

to overwhelm with something

Question 6

pensive

Answer 6

expressing sadness

Question 7

prorogue

Answer 7

to postpone

Question 8

prostrate

Answer 8

to throw oneself face down on the ground in humility

Question 9

resort

Answer 9

use as a final resource

Question 10

resolve

Answer 10

determination

Question 11

shroud

Answer 11

cloth used to wrap up a body for burial

Question 12

stifle

Answer 12

to make someone unable to breath

Question 13

wane

Answer 13

to decrease in intensity

Question 14

adventure

Answer 14

to take a chance or risk

Question 15

aloof

Answer 15

reserves or indifferent

Question 16

apothecary

Answer 16

someone who makes and sells drugs

Question 17

associate

Answer 17

to join as an ally

Question 18

caitiff

Answer 18

mean or evil person

Question 19

haughty

Answer 19

proud or arrogant

Question 20

inauspicious

Answer 20

not promising

Question 21

inexorable

Answer 21

impossible to persuade

Question 22

inter

Answer 22

busy

Question 23

kindred

Answer 23

persons related to each other

Question 24

loathsome

Answer 24

disgusting

Question 25

obsequies

Answer 25

funeral ceremonies

Question 26

penury

Answer 26

poor

Question 27

peruse

Answer 27

to examine

Question 28

pestilence

Answer 28

a deadly disease

Question 29

presage

Answer 29

to foreshadow or predict

Question 30

restorative

Answer 30

restoring a person to consciousness

Question 31

scourge

Answer 31

a difficult time

Question 32

sepulcher

Answer 32

tomb

Question 33

straight

Answer 33

soon or immediately