Romeo and Juliet Act One Vocab

Match the following:

• gall

• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

• mutiny

• 
• fray

• an open rebellion against authority

• partisans

• a noisy fight

• covert

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Match the following:

• portentous

• ominously prophetic

• pernicious

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

• chastity

• exceedingly harmful

• chaste

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

• portent

• morally pure

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Match the following:

• assail

• to attack someone physically or emotionally

• canker

• to beg persistently and urgently

• importune

• to multiple through reproduction

• 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.

• propagation

• to become infected with an ulceration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• lineament

• all future generations

• heretic

• boring verbosity

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

• extremity

• the characteristic parts of a person's face

• posterity

• a person whose religious beliefs conflict with church dogma

• prolixity

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

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Match the following:

• languish

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

• bode

• to formally reject or disavow

• profane

• to violate the sacred character of a place or language

• forswear

• to indicate by signs

• beseech

• to ask for or request earnestly

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• untimely

• improperly forward or bold

• nuptial

• trifling

• not worth considering

• uncommonly early

• boisterous

• marked by exuberance and high spirits

• saucy

• or of relating to a wedding

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• trenchers

• 
• revel

• 
• rapier

• 
• visage

• unrestrained merrymaking

• revelry

• noisy partying or merrymaking

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• seem

• to belittle the value of/degrade

• disparagement

• the act of speaking contemptuously of

• semblance

• the outward of apparent appearance of form of something

• disparage

• to appear to the observation or understanding

  or to give the impression of being

• contempt

• the act of despising or disrespecting

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following:

• prodigious

• great in size, force, extent, or degree

• pilgrimmage

• 
  a journey of a pilgrim

  especially : one to a shrine or a sacred place

  OR

  the course of life on earth

• pilgrim

• a highly talented child or youth

  OR

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

• discreet

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

• prodigy

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9