Enlgish Vocab
Romeo and Juliet
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- Abate
- (v) intensity EX: two hours after the earthquake the aftershocks began to abate and the the emergency crews could begin their work
- Addle
- (v) throw into confusion EX: the midterm review packets were supposed to help but they addled my brain even more
- Augment
- (v) more numerous Ex: adding another guitarist to the band augmented our volume making it the loudest band.
- Chide
- (v) to scold Ex: my mother chided me for not taking the garbage out last night
- Fickle
- (adj) inconstant Ex: in the presidential election in 2004 george bush accused John kerry for being to fickle.
- Haughty
- (adj) blatantly and disdainfully proud (arrogent) Ex: the snobby step sisters were too haughty to be seen in public with cinderella.
- Lamentable
- (adj) worthy of regret Ex: the earthquake in haiti is the most lamentable natural disaster of this decade
- Pensive
- (adj) dreamily thoughtful Ex: when we meet Romeo at the end of Act scene 1 he was in a pensive moon thinking about his lost love Rosaline
- Pernicious
- (adj) destructive Ex: The fighting between the capulets and Montagues were very pernicious
- Pilgrim
- (n) a person who goes on a religious journey Ex: just before his death the civil rights leader Malcom X made a pilgrimage to Mecca
- Portentuous
- (adj) foreshadowing a future event Ex: the clouds were a portentous sign that a massive storm would blanket the east coast with snow
- Prate
- (v) to chatter Ex: juliets nurse likes to prate on and on about what juliet was like as a little girl
- Predominant
- (adj) influence or authority Ex: mercutio's most predominant character trait is his sens of humor
- Profane
- (v) to violate something sacred (adj) not holy Ex: Romeo wonders if touching juliet's hand will profane something sacred and holy.
- Sallow
- (adj) of grayish yellow color Ex: even though carrie no longer had swine flu it took weeks for her face to lose the Sallow color that she had when she was sick
- Shrine
- (n) receptacle of sacred relics Ex: in the next Indiana Jones movie Indiana looks for the Shrine of indeeka where the holy relics of Za are buried
- Sojourn
- (n) a temporary stay or visit (v) to stay As a temporary resident Ex: the travel agent told us that after we leave Rome we will make a brief Sojourn into Greece before we go to Turkey
- Transgression
- (n) violation of law Ex: the montagues and the capulets commit a horrible transgression when they fight in the streets of Verona
- unwieldy
- (adj) not easily managed or handled Ex: although the box was not heavy i feel that the size and shape made it very unwieldy
- wanton
- (adj) hard to control Ex: when Friar lawrence speaks "wanton summer air" he means that the summer air is hard to control.