Vocabulary Word R&J Flashcards
Absolve
Release or relieve
Affray
A fight
Afore me
Before
Amerce
Punish with a fine
Aqua Vitae
Alcohol, “ eau de vie “
Arbitrate
Judge
Asunder
Divided
Bandy
Curved
Bankrout
Older form of brankrupt
Bark
A boat
Bethink
Considering
Chopped Logic
Illogic
Cockatrice
Mythical creature, two-legged dragon
Conduit
A circuit with water
Cords
Ladder
Corse
Corpse
Desperate tender
reckless, thoughtless
Dismembered
Lacking body parts
Doublet
Double
Doting
Adoring
Dram
A small drink
Fiddle Stick
A curse word or an object to play with
Forswear
Agree to give up or do without
Fray
Used and worn
Garish
Very flashy, bright
Hie
Hurry
Gossamer
A gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
Hoar
Old, unattractive, stale OR white
Invocation
Conjure
Mammet
A puppet
Methinks
it seems to me
Mewed up
To close
Minion
A servant
Passado
A movement in a fight
Peppered
Seasoned
Perchance
By chance
Pilcher
Container for the sword
Poultice
Something soothing, applied to relieve
Procures
To get something
Professed
Acknowledged
Puling
Crying querulously
Railest
Making fun of
Retorts
To answer emotionally to an accusation
Sack
A large bag, a container
Sallow
An unhealthy yellow color
Shrift
Confession
Smatter
small amount of something
Spleen
Bad temper
Tilts
Lean over
Trow
Think
Vestal
A virgin
Wanton
Sexually promiscuous
Withal
With
Wreak
To cause damage
Beguiled
To be enchanted
Zounds
expressing surprise or indignation, god’s wounds
Orisons
Prayers
Cull’d
To sort things out
Behoveful
Profitable, needful
Ere
Before
Festering
of an injury, to be inflamed and create pus
Loathsome
causing hatred or disgust
Mandrakes
Mediterranean plant
Distraught
deeply upset and agitated
Environed
Enclosed, surrounded
Shroud
a cloth where a dead body is wrapped
Rapiers
a thin, light sharp pointed sword
Quinces
Fruits, usually in a pastry
Prorogue
discontinue a session
Chide
Scold or rebuke
Vial
a small bottle that contains a drug
Surcease
to put an end to
Drift
Plan
Hither
over here
Kindred
family and relations
Abate
something that becomes less intense or widespread
Stifled
To suffocate, make someone unable to breath properly
Angelica
The name of the nurse
Cot-quean
Muscular woman
Whit
a very small amount
Mouse-hunt
a ladies man, a skirt chaser
Haste
Fast
Sirrah
Term to address servants
County
Paris
Fie
Disgust or outrage
Slug-a-bed
stay in bed, sluggard
Pennyworths
an amount of something that may be bought for a penny
lamentable
to aspire pity, to be sorry for something
woeful
sorrowful
wail
cry of pain
Hence
in consequence
Flower
Virginity
Solace
consolation or comfort
Behold
To look at
Rejoice
feel or show great joy or delight
Spited
Hurt, annoyed
Solemnity
being very serious and dignified
Rosemary
an herb and a symbol of remembrance
Array
Clothes or a display/arrangement
Dirges
An lament for the dead
Lour
angry or sullen
Twain
Two
Forsooth
in truth
Chapless charnel
a morgue
Inexurable
Impossible
Inondation
Flood
Beseeched
to beg, to implore
Brace
a group of two, a pair, a couple
Cynthia
Goddess of the moon
Diana
Goddess who vowed to stay maiden all her life, compared to Rosaline
Dido
Daughter of Mutto, Founder of Carthage
Echo
A women of mythology cursed by Hera for her affair with Zeus
Good King of Cats
Mercutio refers to Tybalt as because his actions are like cats ; lithe, agile and territorial
God’s bread
God’s wound, communion
Helen
Daughter of Zeus and Lena
Hero
Priestess of Aphrodite
Jove
King of the Roman God
Lark
A small ground-dwelling songbird
Mantua
The Town next to Verona, where Romeo needs to go
Mars
God of war
Nightingale
Bird who sings during the night
Phaeton
Son of the god of Sun, Helios