Pernicious | adjective: Deadly; tending to cause death or injury (“Your pernicious rage”) |
Fray | noun: Fight, brawl, heated dispute (“He was not at this fray”) |
Covert | noun: A covered place, shelter, hiding place; thick underbrush (“Into the covert of the wood”) |
Augument | verb: To increase in size (“augmenting the fresh mornings dew”) |
Portentous | adjective: Foreboding; ominous; suggesting oncoming evil (“Black and portentous”) |
Importune | verb: To ask for urgently or repeatedly (“Have you importuned him”) |
Tyrannous | adjective: despotic; exerting absolute power (“Be so tyrannous and rough”) |
Transgression | noun: A violation of a law, command, or duty (“Such is love’s transgression”) |
Propagate | verb: To cause something to multiply or breed (“Thou will propagate with more”) |
Consequence | noun: A result; something that logically or natural that follows an action (“some consequence yet hanging in the stars”) |
Scorn | verb: To regard someone with contempt or distain (“To scorn at our solemnity”) |
Solemnity | noun: A solemn observance or proceeding |
Access | noun: A means of approaching or entering (“he may not have access”) |
Conjure | verb: To summon, using magical or supernatural powers (“I must conjure him”) |
Invocation | noun: An appeal to a higher power (“My invocation is fair and honest”) |
Enmity | noun: deep hatred (“Protected against their enmity”) |
Perjury | noun: Deliberately false testimony (“Jove laughs at lovers’ perjuries”) |
Martial | adjective: Relating to war (“With martial scorn”) |
Eloquence | noun: Persuasive, powerful speech (“Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence”) |
Lamentation | noun: The act of expressing grief or regret (“Which lamentation might have moved”) |
Usurer | noun: One who lends money at an excessively high interest rate (“Like a usurer”) |
Shrift | noun: Confession to a priest (“I would thou were so happy by thy stay to hear true shrift”) |
Trencher | noun: A wooden board or platter on which food is served (“He shift a trencher”) |
Stinted | verb: To restrict or limit (“It stinted and said aye”) |
Anon | adverb: At another time; later (“Anon, anon”) |
Wherefore | adverb: For what purpose, why (“Wherefore art thou Romeo”) |
Bawdy | adjective: Humorously coarse |
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary
August 30, 2019