Romeo and Juliet Vocab

Match the following

• one that contends with, opposes, or resists

• Beseech

• a statement in which you say you are unhappy or not satisfied with

  something

• Augmenting

• increasing the size or amount

• Heretics

• a dissenter from established religious dogma

• Grievance

• to beg for urgently or anxiously

• Adversary

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• the quality of being formal or serious

• Solemnity

• infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty

• Pernicious

• causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or

  noticed

• Transgression

• a good quality or feature that deserves to be praised

• Merit

• a usually verbal conflict between antagonists

• Quarrel

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• cleverness or skill especially at tricking people in order to get something

• Counterfeit

• prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of another

• Lamentable

• expressing grief

• Cunning

• the act of asking for help or support especially from a god

• Intercession

• made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive

• Invocation

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• to get by some action or effort

• Unwieldy

• slightly yellow in a way that does not look healthy

• Predominant

• not easily managed, handled, or used

• Sallow

• causing feelings of hatred or disgust

• Loathsome

• having superior strength, influence, or authority

• Procure

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• You are forced to leave your country/home and go live elsewhere

• Eloquence

• a loud, arrogant boaster

• Disposition

• the tendency of something to act in a certain manner under given

  circumstances

• Exile

• an attempt or device to trick

• Braggart

• speech that is marked by force and persuasiveness

• Deceit

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• marked by lack of stability

• Vengeance

• relating to an army or to military life

• Gallant

• a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute

• Fickle

• doing something to hurt someone because that person did something

  that hurt you or someone

• Fray

• brave and courageous

• Martial

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• causing feelings of hatred or disgust

• Leisure

• directed or ordered

• Enjoined

• time free from work or duties

• Pensive

• very bad or poor

• Dismal

• quietly sad or thoughtful

• Loathsome

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed

• Vial

• a very small glass or plastic container used for perfumes, medicines, etc.

• Subtly

• causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily noticed

• Pilgrimage

• following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved inclinations

• Wayward

• a journey to a special or unusual place often for religious reasons

• Sullen

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• words or expressions that can be understood in two or more possible ways

• Haughty

• having little flesh

• Abhorred

• blatantly and disdainfully proud

• Meager

• regarded with extreme repugnance

• Ambiguities

• funerals or burial rites

• Obsequies

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6

Match the following

• the part of something that is left when the other parts are gone

• Scourge

• the state of being very poor

• Sovereign

• one possessing or held to possess supreme political power

• Thwarted

• an instrument of punishment or criticism

• Remnants

• opposed successfully

• Penury

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6