Romeo and Juliet
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celia_garrett on March 28, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pernicious | deadly, fatal |
| portentous | the suggestion that something bad will happen; threatening, ominous |
| posterity | the future generations; heirs |
| visage | facial appearance |
| disparagement | the act of putting someone down |
| profane | to disrespect something that is sacred |
| prodigious | a large amount (quantity) |
| perjury | broken vow or promise |
| enmity | deep hatred |
| perverse | to willfully go against what is expected |
| rancor | hatred, bitterness, ill-willed |
| consort | to accompany (v)/ an associate (n) |
| sojourn | (a/to) temporary stay |
| abhors | (to) regard with hatred, loathing, disgust |
| inundation | to cover with a flood, overflow |
| shroud | a holy garment covering the dead |
| surcease | to stop, cease |
| kindred | relationship by blood |
| warrant | to assure, guarantee |
| presage | (to) forecast, predict(ion) |
| penury | the condition of poverty, need |
| pestilence | a fatal epidemic or disease; plague |
| inexorable | incapable of being persuaded |
| inauspicious | unlucky, foreboding evil |
| scourge | cause of problems and pain |
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