| Ambiguous | having more than one meaning; unclear, uncertain |
| Ascend | to move upward, to rise from a lower station |
| Augment | to make greater or to supplement |
| Baleful | destructive, deadly |
| Beguile | to deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm |
| Boisterous | rowdy, rough, and stormy |
| Calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune |
| Dirge | funeral hymn, lament |
| Disparage | to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner |
| Dissemble | to disguise, to pretend |
| Engrossed | completely occupied or absorbed |
| Enmity | absolute hatred |
| Entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| Feint | a false appearance, a fake punch to occupy defenses allowing a real blow |
| Inauspicious | unfavorable |
| Inundate | to flood, to overflow |
| Lament | to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner |
| Obsequious | overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| 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 |
| Presage | Something that foreshadows a current event; foreknowledge of the future |
| Profane | showing contempt towards sacred things |
| Prostration | a stretching out due to lacking vitality and being completely overcome |
| Quench | to extinguish, to put out; to relieve with liquid |
| Rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity |
| Savory | appetizing |
| Supple | easily bent, elastic, plastic |
| Vexation | discomfort or distress |
| Virtuous | having excellent morals, righteous |
| Wanton | immoral, lewd |
Romeo and Juliet Definitions
August 14, 2019