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Romeo and Juliet vocab list II

  1. lark
    bird
  2. mark, "mark my words"
    to pay attention;
  3. marry
    slang expression like "indeed", originally "By the Virgin Mary"
  4. martial
    war-like
  5. naught
    nothing
  6. nay
    no
  7. orb
    round object or path
  8. orisons
    prayers
  9. paramour
    mistress (outside marriage)
  10. pensive
    thoughtful
  11. penury
    extreme poverty
  12. perchance
    perhaps
  13. pernicious
    wicked
  14. peruse
    to look over
  15. pestilence
    plague
  16. portentous
    ominous
  17. presage
    to foreshadow an event
  18. prithee
    I beg of you; please
  19. privy
    aware of something secret
  20. procure
    to obtain something with great effort
  21. prodigious
    monstrous; huge
  22. propagate
    to promote or increase something
  23. prostrate
    lying on the floor in complete humility
  24. purge
    to purify
  25. quarantined
    kept apart because of disease
  26. rancor
    hatred
  27. redress
    to set something right
  28. repose
    to rest or sleep
  29. semblance
    resemblance
  30. shrift
    confession
  31. shroud
    burial cloth
  32. sojourn
    to stay for a long time OR a stay
  33. solace
    comfort
  34. solemnity
    ceremony
  35. stratagems
    tricks or dreadful deeds (in Shakespeare)
  36. sunder
    apart
  37. transgression
    sin or offense
  38. usurer
    money lender
  39. valor
    bravery
  40. vengeance
    retaliation, revenge
  41. vault
    above the ground tomb
  42. want
    lack of
  43. wherefore
    why
  44. wont
    used to do something; habit
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Romeo and Juliet vocab list II
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