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