| ostracize | to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent |
| aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty |
| ecstatic | feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement |
| cursory | hasty, not thorough |
| fiasco | (n.) the complete collapse or failure of a project |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| harangue | a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture |
| Loquacious | tending to talk a great deal |
| autonomous | self-governing; independent |
| obstreperous | noisy and difficult to control |
| furtive | secret, stealthy |
| unctuous | (adj.) Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |
| inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent |
| pander | (v.) to cater to or provide satisfaction for the low tastes or vices of others; (n.) a person who does this |
| voluptuous | full of delight or pleasure; having a shapely and pleasing appearance |
| placate | to appease, soothe, pacify |
| wrest | to pull away, take by violence |
| moribund | (adj.) dying, on the way out |
| importune | (v.) to trouble with demands; to beg for insistently |
| ludicrous | ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
| chicanery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| castigate | (v.) to punish severely; to criticize severely |
| sagacious | wise; having keen perception and sound judgement |
| obsequious | marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons |
| lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal |
Romeo and Juliet No Fear Shakesphear Vocab
November 6, 2019