| Portentous (adj) | being a grave or serious matterominously significant or indicative |
| Posterity (noun) | All future generations; the offspring of one person(ancestor) to the furthest generation collectively not just your family |
| Visage (Noun) | the face,countenance, or appearance of a person |
| Disparagement (Noun) | Lowering a person’s rank/reputation /dishonor/belittling/degradingor not appreciate by indirect means(by comparison)/speak disrespectful remarks |
| Profane (Verb) | To treat(something sacred) with abuse,irreverence,or contempt or to debase by a wrong,unworthy,or vulgar use/to misuse/ threat with disrespect |
| Pernicious (Adj) | Highly injurious/destructive/deadly or wicked |
| Consort (Verb) | Associate/keep company of hired musicians or to accompany(one ship with another) with people you don’t have a desire to be with |
| Rancour (Noun) | Resentment |
| Prodigious (Adj) | huge or enormous in size |
| Perjuries/ Perjury (Noun) | To tell lies/ to tell lies in a court of lies |
| Enmity (Noun) | Hostility; the extreme ill will or hatred that exists between enemies |
| Perverse (Adj) | Inexplicably irrational (contrary to what is reasonable and normal)/stubbornly unreasonable/ deliberately disobedient |
| Sojourn (Verb) | To stay as a temporary resident/stop/ To visit (journey) |
| Abhors/Abhorred (Verb) | To regard with extreme repugnance/loathe/hate/detest |
| Inundation (Noun) | A great flow of water or of something that overwhelms/ a flood |
| Shroud (Noun) | Something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth/burial cloth |
| Surcease (Noun) | The stopping of a process or activity/ to cease |
| Kindred (Noun) | A group of persons who come from the same ancestor/Relatives |
| Warrant (Verb) | to assure/ guarantee/ state factually |
| Presage (Verb) | Something believed to be a sign or warning of a future eventTo tell of or describe before hand/ Foretell/Predict |
| Penury (Noun) | Extreme poverty/ The state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions |
| Pestilence (Noun) | A widespread disease resulting in a high rate of death/ deadly epidemic disease plague |
| Inexorable (Adj) | Not to be persuaded,moved,or stopped/unyielding |
| Inauspicious (Adj) | Not auspicious/not telling or promising that future success is likely or not showing a successful fate will occur/bad fate |
| Scourge (Noun) | a Whip/ a torment/ a plague/affliction > disaster used especially to inflict pain or punishment An instrument for punishment or criticism |
| Text Examples | “Black and Portentous must this humor prove”-Lord Montague”Cuts beauty off from all posterity”-Romeo’s description of Rosaline”Give me a case to put my visage in”-Mercutio”Here in my house do him disparagement”-Lord Capulet to Tybalt”If I profane with my unworthiest hand..”-Romeo to Juliet”That quench the fire of your pernicious rage”-Prince Escales |
| Text Examples | “Consort? What dost thou make as minstrels? And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discounts”-Mercutio to Tybalt”To turn your households rancor to pure love”-Friar Lawrence to Romeo”Prodigious birth of love it is to me”-Juliet to Nurse”Thou mayst prove false:at lovers’ perjuries”-Juliet to Romeo”And I am proof against their enmity”-Romeo to Juliet”I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay”-Juliet to Romeo”Sojourn in Mantua,I’ll find out your man”-Friar Lawrence to Romeo |
| Text Examples | “O how my heart abhors To hear him nam’d and cannot come to him,”-Juliet to Lady Capulet”To stop the inundation of her tears”-Paris to Friar Lawrence”And hide me with a dead man in his shroud”-Juliet to Friar Lawrence”Shall keep his native progress,but surcease”-Friar Lawrence”Where all the kindred of the Capulet’s lie”-Friar Lawrence to Juliet |
| Text Examples | “And all things shall be well, I warrant thee,wife”-Lord Capulet to Lady Capulet”My dreams presage some joyful news at hand”-Romeo to himself”Noting this penury, to myself I said”-Romeo to Apothecary”Where the infectious pestilence did reign”-Friar John to Friar Lawrence”More fierce and more inexorable far”-Romeo to Balthasar”And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”-Romeo to Juliet’s tomb”See what a scourge is laid upon your hate”-Prince Escales to everyone inside the tomb |
| Homour | mood |
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary
July 27, 2019