| inundate | (v.) to cover with water, to flood, to overflow |
| inundate sentece | Every considerable rise of its waters would inundate vast areas of fertile and cultivated land. |
| inundation | (n.) an overflow, a flood |
| inundation sentence | The lowlands are protected against inundation by dikes. |
| pensive | (adj.) deeply thoughtful, meditative, relective |
| pensive sentence | She would often slip into her pensive state thinking only about the dreams that couldn’t come true. |
| resolute | (adj.) characterized be a decided purpose, staunch, steadfast, determined |
| resolute sentence | The look of his eyes was resolute, calm, and animatedly alert, as never before. |
| resolution | (n.) a formal expression of opinion or intention |
| resolution sentence | The resolution in his face was unmistakable. |
| treahery | (n.) violation of faith; betrayal of trust, treason, disloyalty |
| treachery sentence | But soon afterwards the king, suspecting treachery, resolved to get rid of his enemies once and for all. |
| treacherous | (adj.) faithless, disloyal, treasonous |
| treacherous sentence | It was described as a treacherous path. |
| supple | (adj.) easily bent, elastic, pliable, resilent |
| stark | (adj.) harsh, rim or desolate, extremely simple or severe, dreary |
| stark sentence | It was followed by the stark reality that he had nothing. |
| prostation | (n.) a stretching out due to lacking vitality and being completely overcome |
| prostrate | (adj.) completely overcome, falling down in submission. |
| lament | (v.) to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner, to be moan, to be wail |
| lament sentence | The young man laments the fact that he earns too little to pay his bills. |
| lamentable | (adj.) mournful or sorrow |
| melancholy | (adj.) depression of spirits, soberly thoughtful, pensive, despondent |
| lamentable sentence | He published a little collection of lamentable sonnets when his great master died. |
| dirge | (n.) funeral hymn, lament, a slow mournful musical composition. |
| dirge sentence | The sailors, desirous of hearing so famous a musician, consented, and the poet, standing on the deck of the ship, in full minstrel’s attire, sang a dirge accompanied by his lyre. |
| melancholy sentence | He had many melancholy reflections of his old school days. |
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Test
September 1, 2019