Romeo and Juliet Act One Vocab

Match the following:

• mutiny

• an open rebellion against authority

• fray

• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

• gall

• a noisy fight

• partisans

• a feeling of deep and bitter anger, ill- will

• covert

• 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Match the following:

• chaste

• exceedingly harmful

• chastity

• ominously prophetic

• portent

• the state of being chaste, morally pure, or abstaining from sex

• pernicious

• morally pure

• portentous

• a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Match the following:

• propagation

• to attack someone physically or emotionally

• assail

• to multiple through reproduction

• importune

• to become infected with an ulceration

• canker

• to beg persistently and urgently

• propagate

• multiplication (as of a kind of living thing) in number of individuals. b. : the spreading of something (as a belief) abroad or into new regions.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• extremity

• a condition or state beyond the norm (beyond normal)

• heretic

• the characteristic parts of a person's face

• lineament

• all future generations

• prolixity

• boring verbosity

  (Hint: Verbal communication is about language, both written and spoken)

• posterity

• a person whose religious beliefs conflict with church dogma

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Match the following:

• profane

• to lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

• languish

• to indicate by signs

• forswear

• to violate the sacred character of a place or language

• beseech

• to ask for or request earnestly

• bode

• to formally reject or disavow

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• untimely

• marked by exuberance and high spirits

• nuptial

• trifling

• not worth considering

• improperly forward or bold

• saucy

• uncommonly early

• boisterous

• or of relating to a wedding

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• trenchers

• noisy partying or merrymaking

• visage

• 
• revel

• unrestrained merrymaking

• rapier

• 
• revelry

• 

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In Shakespearean language, antic has one meaning, but it also can mean: (select all that apply)

• ludicrously odd

• a space or room just below the roof of a building

• prank

• trick

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• disparage

• to belittle the value of/degrade

• contempt

• the act of speaking contemptuously of

• disparagement

• to appear to the observation or understanding

  or to give the impression of being

• seem

• the outward of apparent appearance of form of something

• semblance

• the act of despising or disrespecting

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• prodigious

• a highly talented child or youth

  OR

  an extraordinary, marvelous, or unusual accomplishment, deed, or event

• pilgrimmage

• marked by prudence or modesty, or wise self- restraint

• discreet

• 
  a journey of a pilgrim

  especially : one to a shrine or a sacred place

  OR

  the course of life on earth

• prodigy

• someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of devotion

• pilgrim

• great in size, force, extent, or degree

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9