Romeo & Juliet ACT I Vocabulary

One that contends with, opposes, or resists

• Transgression

• Merit

• Adversary

• Heretics

Infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty

• Beseech

• Grievance

• Pernicious

• Transgression

Increasing in size

• Augmenting

• Quarrel

• Solemnity

• Merit

To beg for urgently or anxiously

• Heretics

• Beseech

• Adversary

• Quarrel

The quality of being formal or serious

• Grievance

• Solemnity

• Merit

• Transgression

A usually verbal conflict between antagonists

• Augmenting

• Heretics

• Pernicious

• Quarrel

A statement in which you say you are unhappy or not satisfied with something

• Merit

• Grievance

• Adversary

• Solemnity

Causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

• Pernicious

• Merit

• Augmenting

• Heretics

A good quality or feature that deserves to be praised

• Beseech

• Pernicious

• Solemnity

• Merit

A dissenter from established religious dogma

• Heretics

• Adversary

• Transgression

• Beseech