Flashcards: Vocabulary: Romeo & Juliet, Act I
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zeezeetop103 on April 7, 2010
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Holton Class of 2013, Holton 8th Grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 choler | anger, irritability |
| pernicious | causing great harm |
| convert | a covered place or shelter; a hiding place |
| augmenting | to make greater, as in size, extent or quantity. |
| importuned | to plead or urge irksomely, often persistently. |
| transgression | a violation of a law, command, or a duty |
| propagate | to cause to extend to a broader area, to spread |
| gall | bitterness of feeling, rancor |
| chastity | virginity |
| forsworn | to swear falsely, commit perjury |
| marred | having the surface injured or disfigured; blemished by rough wear or injury |
| unattainted (untainted) | of reputation |
| heretics | a person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
| wormwood | a bitter tasting plant |
| dug | breast |
| prolixity | the state of being tediously prolonged, wordy |
| ambling | an unhurried, leisurely walk |
| visage | the face or facial expression of a person, countenance |
| wit | senses |
| alderman | a member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city |
| courtier | an attendant at a sovereign's court |
| benefice | an ecclesiastical living and church preferment; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service |
| begot | cause to exist, produce |
| inconstant | changing or varying, especially often and without discernible pattern or reason |
| rapier | double-edged sword |
| wherefore | for what purpose or reason, why |
| solemnity | the trait of dignified seriousness |
| portly | comfortably stout, corpulent |
| disparagement | communication that belittles somebody or something |
| prodigious | impressively great in size, force, or extent |