Romeo/Juliet Vocab Practice 1

Profaners

•  those who have irreverence for what is sacred

• future generations

• a member of the municipal legislative body

• regard with respect

Pernicious

•  those who have irreverence for what is sacred

• evil; wicked; having a harmful effect

• a member of the municipal legislative body

• to free from impurities

Augmenting

•  those who have irreverence for what is sacred

• evil; wicked; having a harmful effect

• a member of the municipal legislative body

• to make (something already developed) greater

Portentous

•  those who have irreverence for what is sacred

• foreboding; a grave and serious matter

• a violation of a law, command or duty

• to make (something already developed) greater

Transgression

•  those who have irreverence for what is sacred

• foreboding; a grave and serious matter

• a violation of a law, command or duty

• to make (something already developed) greater

 Posterity

• future generations

• foreboding; a grave and serious matter

• a violation of a law, command or duty

• to make (something already developed) greater

Languish

• future generations

• foreboding; a grave and serious matter

• a violation of a law, command or duty

• to become weak or feeble

 Heretics

• future generations

• rough and stormy; violent

• a violation of a law, command or duty

• a person who holds controversial opinions

Esteem

•  regard with respect

• rough and stormy; violent

• a church office endowed with fixed capital assets

• a person who holds controversial opinions

Obscured

• indistinctly heard; faint

• rough and stormy; violent

• a church office endowed with fixed capital assets

• a person who holds controversial opinions