Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Flashcards
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Rouse
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to wake or intensify
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to wake or intensify
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Rouse
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Enjoin
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To demand or encourage someone to do something.
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To demand or encourage someone to do something.
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Enjoin
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Orison
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A prayer (in religion).
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A prayer (in religion).
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Orison
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Dirge
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To express grievance for the dead.
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To express grievance for the dead.
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Dirge
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Ordained
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The action of passing a decree or demand.
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The action of passing a decree or demand.
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Ordained
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Immoderate
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To act in a way where you are deemed unsensible. This can also mean too much.
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To act in a way where you are deemed unsensible. This can also mean too much.
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Immoderate
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Prorogue
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To stop a meeting of a gathering of important leaders.
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To stop a meeting of a gathering of important leaders.
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Prorogue
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Surcease
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Without stopping.
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Without stopping.
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Surcease
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Abate
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Something that is negatively intense, dying down.
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Something that is negatively intense, dying down.
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Abate
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Behest
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Someone’s instructions or demands.
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Someone’s instructions or demands.
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Behest
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Prostrate
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To be weak due to an illness.
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To be weak due to an illness.
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Prostrate
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Pestilent
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Has a risk to life and can do a lot of harm.
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Has a risk to life and can do a lot of harm.
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Pestilent
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Inundation
A surplus amount of people things.
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A surplus amount of people things.
Inundation
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Apt
An adjective used to tell if something is fitting or appropriate for another thing.
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An adjective used to tell if something is fitting or appropriate for another thing.
Apt
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Consort
When one would associate with another and usually earned the disapproval of the group one came from.
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When one would associate with another and usually earned the disapproval of the group one came from.
Consort
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Haste
To do something quickly and caring more about the fact that it got done as the quality was ignored.
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To do something quickly and caring more about the fact that it got done as the quality was ignored.
Haste
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Garish
To be excessively bright and colorful.
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To be excessively bright and colorful.
Garish
35
Carrion
The rotting remains of an animal that has died.
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The rotting remains of an animal that has died.
Carrion
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Dote
To love and favor greatly to a large extent.
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To love and favor greatly to a large extent.
Dote
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Lamentation
To be in a state of sadness and grieving.
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To be in a state of sadness and grieving.
Lamentation
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Beseech
To quickly ask someone to do something.
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To quickly ask someone to do something.
Beseech
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Appertaining
To relate to something else.
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To relate to something else.
Appertaining
45
Abhor
To dislike something or someone.
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To dislike something or someone.
Abhor
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Bandy
To discuss or share (message-wise) with another.
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To discuss or share (message-wise) with another.
Bandy
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Vesta
Dealing with a Roman Goddess named Vesta.
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Dealing with a Roman Goddess named Vesta.
Vesta
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Effeminate
For a man to act in the manner of a woman.
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For a man to act in the manner of a woman.
Effeminate
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Invocation
The action of sparking an interest in or asking for help.
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The action of sparking an interest in or asking for help.
Invocation
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Discourse
Typically caused by a sensitive topic that angers two or more parties and makes them dislike each other.
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Typically caused by a sensitive topic that angers two or more parties and makes them dislike each other.
Discourse
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Entreat
The manner of treating someone
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The manner of treating someone
Entreat
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Enmity
Constantly acting against or opposing someone.
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Constantly acting against or opposing someone.
Enmity
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Perverse
To purposefully act in a way that is invalid.
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To purposefully act in a way that is invalid.
Perverse
63
Repose
To sleep
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To sleep
Repose
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Baleful
An adjective meaning threatening.
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An adjective meaning threatening.
Baleful
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Sallow
When one’s complexion is a yellow or brown color when they are unwell.
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When one’s complexion is a yellow or brown color when they are unwell.
Sallow
69
Lamentable
To be unsatisfactory or up to standards.
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To be unsatisfactory or up to standards.
Lamentable
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Importune
To repetitively ask of someone
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To repetitively ask of someone
Importune
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Assail
To attack one violently
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To attack one violently
Assail
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Tyrannous
To act in a manner of tyranny or unjustly abusing power
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To act in a manner of tyranny or unjustly abusing power
Tyrannous
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Beseem
To seem or profit someone
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To seem or profit someone
Beseem
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Forswear
To agree to surrender oneself or something (materialistic)
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To agree to surrender oneself or something (materialistic)
Forswear
81
Propagate
To spread certain ideas or words
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To spread certain ideas or words
Propagate
83
Partisan
An unwavering support of a person, group, or idea.
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An unwavering support of a person, group, or idea.
Partisan
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Transgression
Something that someone does to provoke the law.
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Something that someone does to provoke the law.
Transgression
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Pernicious
Something that has a slow, harming effect.
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Something that has a slow, harming effect.
Pernicious
89
Augment
To add to something and make larger
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To add to something and make larger
Augment
91
Posterity
The generations of people in the future
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The generations of people in the future
Posterity
93
Portentous
Acting of warning and predicting something big that would happen whether positive or negative
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Acting of warning and predicting something big that would happen whether positive or negative
Portentous
