| scourge | a major affliction or hardshipCapulet, montague, see what a _____ is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, and I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen |
| caitiff | mean, evil personNoting this penury, to myself I said, “And if a man did need a poison now whose sale is present death in Mantua , here lives a ___ wretch would sell it to him. |
| inter | buryDeath, lie thou there, by a dead man ______. |
| penury | impoverished, poorNoting this ______, to myself I said, “And if a man did need a poison now whose sale is present death in Mantua , here lives a caitliff wretch would sell it to him. |
| pestilence | epidemicWhere the infectuous _______ did reign, sealed up the doos, and would not let us forth, so that my speed to Mantua there was stayed |
| apothecary | pharmacistI do remember an ________, and hereabouts ‘a dwells, which late I noted in tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, culling of simples |
| presage | to predictIf i may trust the flattering truth of sleep, my dreams ______ some joyful news at hand. |
| inauspicious | not promisingO, here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of _______ stars from this world-wearied flesh. |
| sepulcher | tombAlack, alack, what blood is this which stains the stony entrance of this _____? |
| aloof | showing no interest, withdrawn, uninvolvedGive me thy torch, boy. Hence, and stand ____. |
| peruse | to examineLet me _____ this face. |
| inexorable | impossible to persuade, to change or haltThe time and my intents are savage-wild, more fierce and more ______ far than empty tigers or the roaring sea. |
| obsequies | funeral ceremoniesThe _____ that I for thee will keep nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. |
| felon | criminalI do defy thy conjurations and apprehend thee for a _____ here. |
Romeo and Juliet act 5 vocab. and sentences
November 20, 2019