Vocabulary from Romeo and Juliet: Enhance Your Understanding

1. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Augment—increase or enlarge • Baleful—destructive • Disposition—way of thinking • Dote—foolishly fond of • Heralds—announcer • Importune—beg or ask earnestly

2. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Impute—blame • Nuptial—of marriage or weddings • Revels—noisy or good time • Semblance—resemblance or alike • Knave—rascal • Belligerence—fond of fighting

3. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Nimble—agile • Vile—very bad • Beseech—beg • Cleft—split open • Chide—scold • Entreat—beg

4. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Plague—torment or cause annoyance • Anguish—distress of mind or body • Rash—quick • Repose—to lay at rest—restful position • Boisterous—noisily rough; rowdy

5. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Unwieldy—awkward or clumsy • Sallow—of a grayish, greenish, yellowish color • Cunning—sly or clever • Brine—very salty water • Naught—nothing; zero

6. Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary • Adversary—enemy, opponent, foe • Mar—ruin or damage

7. Romeo and Juliet • Abhor—hate • Reconcile—settle disagreement • Kindred—family; relatives • Strife—fight or struggle • Fickle—changeable • Solace--comfort

8. Romeo and Juliet • Stealth—secret; sly • Wayward—disobedient • Thwart—prevent from doing • Inexorable--unyielding

9. Romeo and Juliet • Prostrate—lying face down • Inundation—to cover with a flood • Meager—poor • Inter—to deposit in the earth or tomb • Tributary—stream flowing into a larger one

10. R&J • Tempest—violent disturbance • Unsavory—having a bad taste or smell • Peruse—examine in detail (scrutiny) • Infirm—weak or sick

11. R&J • Dexterity—skills using hands or body • Disperse—scatter • Reclaim—bring back to a useful condition • Agile—able to move quickly; easily

12. R&J • Jocund—merry; pleasant • Martial—warlike • Aloof—apart; at a distance • Resolution—thing decided upon

13. R&J • Discords—disagreement • Retire—retreat • Slander—false charges to damage one’s reputation • Valor—courage • Calamity—serious trouble

14. R&J • Penury—great poverty • Beguile--deceive