Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 profaners | those who have a lack of respect for what is sacred. "Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, profaners of this neighbor-stained steel" |
| pernicious | evil; wicked. "you men, you beats, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage." |
| augmenting | to make (something already developed) greater. "Man a morning hat he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew" |
| portentous | foreboding. "Black and portentous must this humor prove, Unless good counsel may the cause remove." |
| transgression | a violation of a law, command or duty. "Why, such is love's transgression- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast" |
| posterity | future generations "For beauty, starv'd with her severity, Cuts beauty off from all posterity." |
| languish | to become weak or feeble "One desperate grief cures with another's languish" |
| heretics | a person who holds controversial opinions "When the devout religion of mine eye Maintains such falsehood ... Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!" |
| esteem | regard with respect "Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are made already mothers" |
| obscured | indistinctly heard; faint "And what obscur'd in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes" |
| boisterous | rough and stormy; violent "Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn." |
| alderman | a member of the municipal legislative body "no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman." |
| benefice | a church office endowed with fixed capital assets "Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, Then he dreams of another benefice" |
| purged | to free from impurities "Thus from my lips, by thine sin is purg'd" |
| loathed | to dislike (someone or something) greatly "That I must love a loathed enemy" |
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