kinsmen | a relative, specifically a male relative |
profane | common or vulgar |
pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous, injurious, hurtful |
adversary | a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe. |
defiance | a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force. |
fray | a fight, battle, or skirmish |
covert | concealed, secret, disguised. |
shunned | to keep away from motives or dislike, caution, etc, |
augmenting | to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase. |
grievances | a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress |
shrift | confession to a priest |
tyrannous | unjustly cruel, harsh, or severe |
oppression | the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. |
transgression | an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin. |
purged | to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify |
assailing | to attack vigorously or violently, assault |
anguish | excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain. |
heretics | anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle. |
fortnight | two weeks |
beseech | to implore urgently |
idle | not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing |
vile | wretchedly bad |
untimely | happening too soon or too early; premature |
steerage | (in a passenger ship) the part or accommodations allotted to the passengers who travel at the cheapest rate. |
knaves | an unprincipled, untrustworthy or dishonest person. |
quench | to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.) |
forswear | to reject or renounce under oath. |
scorn | to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain |
solemnity | the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness |
disparagment | something that derogates or casts in a bad light, as a remark or censorious essay. |
endure | to admit of; allow; bear |
perforce | of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance |
choler | purposeful anger |
shrine | any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple. |
pilgrims | a traveler or wanderer, esp. in a foreign place. |
palmers | a pilgrim, esp. of the Middle Ages, who had returned from the Holy Land bearing a palm branch as a token. |
prodigious | wonderful or marvelous. |
loathed | to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor |
Romeo and Juliet Act One Vocabulary
December 13, 2019