| 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