| Pernicious | adjective: Deadly; tending to cause death or injury (“Your pernicious rage”) |
| Fray | noun: Fight, brawl, heated dispute (“He was not at this fray”) |
| Covert | noun: A covered place, shelter, hiding place; thick underbrush (“Into the covert of the wood”) |
| Augument | verb: To increase in size (“augmenting the fresh mornings dew”) |
| Portentous | adjective: Foreboding; ominous; suggesting oncoming evil (“Black and portentous”) |
| Importune | verb: To ask for urgently or repeatedly (“Have you importuned him”) |
| Tyrannous | adjective: despotic; exerting absolute power (“Be so tyrannous and rough”) |
| Transgression | noun: A violation of a law, command, or duty (“Such is love’s transgression”) |
| Propagate | verb: To cause something to multiply or breed (“Thou will propagate with more”) |
| Consequence | noun: A result; something that logically or natural that follows an action (“some consequence yet hanging in the stars”) |
| Scorn | verb: To regard someone with contempt or distain (“To scorn at our solemnity”) |
| Solemnity | noun: A solemn observance or proceeding |
| Access | noun: A means of approaching or entering (“he may not have access”) |
| Conjure | verb: To summon, using magical or supernatural powers (“I must conjure him”) |
| Invocation | noun: An appeal to a higher power (“My invocation is fair and honest”) |
| Enmity | noun: deep hatred (“Protected against their enmity”) |
| Perjury | noun: Deliberately false testimony (“Jove laughs at lovers’ perjuries”) |
| Martial | adjective: Relating to war (“With martial scorn”) |
| Eloquence | noun: Persuasive, powerful speech (“Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence”) |
| Lamentation | noun: The act of expressing grief or regret (“Which lamentation might have moved”) |
| Usurer | noun: One who lends money at an excessively high interest rate (“Like a usurer”) |
| Shrift | noun: Confession to a priest (“I would thou were so happy by thy stay to hear true shrift”) |
| Trencher | noun: A wooden board or platter on which food is served (“He shift a trencher”) |
| Stinted | verb: To restrict or limit (“It stinted and said aye”) |
| Anon | adverb: At another time; later (“Anon, anon”) |
| Wherefore | adverb: For what purpose, why (“Wherefore art thou Romeo”) |
| Bawdy | adjective: Humorously coarse |
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary
August 30, 2019