Romeo and Juliet Vocab List 1
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Created by:
elise_danielle_76453 on January 19, 2010
Subjects:
pre-ap english, 9th grade english
Description:
Words that appear in Romeo and Juliet and have been identified as words or derivatives of words that have appeared on past SAT tests.
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 augment | to make greater or supplement |
| boisterous | rowdy, rough, and stormy |
| baleful | destructive, deadly |
| disparage | to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner |
| dissemble | to disguise, pretend |
| enmity | absolute hatred |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| feint | a false appearance, a fake punch to occupy defenses allowing a real blow |
| perjury | false testimony under oath |
| pernicious | very destructive or harmful, deadly |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| posterity | future generations, all descendants of a person |
| prate | to talk idly or foolishly at great length |
| profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| quench | to extinguish, to put out; to relieve with liquid |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity |
| virtuous | having excellent morals; righteous |
| wanton | immoral, lewd |
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