Romeo and Juliet Vocab. Practice

"To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand.

Therefore if thou art moved thou runn’st away." (Rom. 1.1.9)

What can you infer valiant means as it is used above?

• showing courage or determination

• showing fearfulness and timidity

• expressing one's opinion aggressively

• allowing others to decide for oneself

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Select the word in the translation that gives the meaning of doctrine.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

CAPULET Why, how now, kinsman? Wherefore storm you so?

TYBALT Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, A villain that is hither come in spite To scorn at our solemnity this night.

CAPULET Young Romeo is it?

TYBALT 'Tis he, that villain Romeo?

Based on the use of the word solemnity and the context in which it is used, what can you infer it means in this text?

• serious or dignified

• funny and satirical

• whimsical and lighthearted

• informal and rushed

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Come ​ (a)   , covered with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our ​ (b)   ?

Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,

To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

Drag and drop the missing words based on the context of the portion above.

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• hither
• solemnity
• valiant
• dost
• thou

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

ROMEO Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “ay,”

And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear’st

Thou mayst prove false. At lovers' perjuries,

They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.

Based on the text above, your can infer perjuries most likely has to do with

• being honest and truthful

• telling lies

• answering swiftly

• being secretive

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

ROMEO Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom? What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand That I yet know not?

Which word in Friar Lawrence's response is most similar to acquaintance as it is used here?

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Organize these words into the connotation they most match.

Groups:

(a) hopeless

,

(b) loving

• jewel

• doomsday

• exile

• devotion

• beauty

• marriage

• banishment

• terror

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

ROMEO If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

Using your knowledge of prefixes, what can you infer the word presage means in this context?

• prevent or hinder
• remember or recall
• analyze or examine
• predict or foreshadow

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4