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created by L. Lopez, 3/31/03

ROMEO AND JULIET VOCABULARY LIST

1. pernicious (1.1.83) adj - deadly; fatal; harmful

2. augmenting (1.1.131) v - adding to; increasing

3. portentous (1.1.140) adj - foreboding; fateful; threatening; nearing

4. shrift (1.1.158) n - confession

5. transgression (1.1.184) n - sin

6. propagate (1.1.186) v - to multiply; to breed

7. disparagement (1.5.71) n - abuse; criticism

8. prodigious (1.5.141) adj - exceptional; impressive; enormous

9. conjure (2.1.6) v - to call up; to summon

10. entreat (2.2.16) v - to ask; to beg

11. perjuries (2.2.92) n - lies

12. repose (2.2.123) n - sleep; rest; relaxation

13. procure (2.2.145) v - to obtain; to acquire; to get

14. knave (2.4.151) n - villain

15. wanton (2.5.70) adj - immoral; unrestricted; wild

16. chide (2.6.2) v - to scold; to reprimand

17. effeminate (3.1.113) adj - womanish; unmanly

18. martial (3.1.160) adj - military

19. garish (3.2.25) adj - tasteless; flashy; glaring; vulgar

20. dismal (3.2.44) adj - gloomy; sorrowful

21. forswear [forsworn] (3.2.87) v - to abandon; to desert; to leave

22. banishment (3.2.131) n - expulsion; cast off

23. adversity (3.3.55) n - difficulty; hardship

24. sojourn (3.3.169) n - a temporary stay  v- to stay temporarily

25. abhors (3.5.100) v – hates

26. inundation (4.1.12) n - flood; the act of covering or burying

27. abate (4.1.120) v - to lessen

28. prostrate (4.2.20) v - to throw oneself flat on the ground

29. orisons (4.3.3) n - prayers

30. lamentable (4.5.17) adj - pathetic; sad

31. solace (4.5.47) n - relief; comfort

32. beguiled (4.5.55) adj - tricked; deceived

33. redress (4.5.139) n - compensation; payment; reimbursement

34. import (5.1.28) n - importance; significance

35. penury (5.1.49) n - poverty

36. pestilence (5.2.10) n - disease; plague

37. obsequies (5.3.20) n - observances; rituals; rites

38. inexorable (5.3.38) adj - unstoppable; unyielding

39. haughty (5.3.49) adj - arrogant; conceited

40. amorous (5.3.103) adj - loving; passionate; impassioned

41. inauspicious (5.3.11) adj - ill-omened; foreboding; portentous

42. sepulcher (5.3.141) n - tomb

43. thwarted (5.3.154) v - prevented; obstructed

44. scourge (5.3.292) n - disaster; catastrophe; misfortune

45. enmity (5.3.304) n - hostility; hatred; rancor