Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Vocab

Match the following:

• appertain

• n. an inherent characteristic

  v. to explain the cause or origin

• attribute

• to be a part or attribute of something

• addle

• to become rotten

• doublet

• a man's close-fitting jacket, worn during the Renaissance

• renaissance

• a cultural, scientific, artistic, or intellectual revival

Match the following:

• minstrel

• a singer of folk songs

• forbear

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• refrain

• to stop oneself from doing something; a phrase or verse recurring in a poem or song

• rogue

• to resist doing something

• forbearance

• the action of refraining from exercising a legal right, especially enforcing the payment of a debt.

Match the following:

• recur

• misery resulting from affliction

• affliction

• a feeling of resentful anger; a fist-sized organ in the upper left side of your abdomen, next to your stomach and behind your left ribs

• effeminate

• a cause of persistent pain or distress

• spleen

• lacking traits typically associated with men or masculinity

• woe

• to occur, appear, or happen again

Match the following:

• matronly

• cleverness or skill.

• adroitness

• denoting, relating to, or characteristic of a staid or conservatively dressed older married woman

• dexterity

• adroitness in using the hands

• amorous

• expressive of or exciting love or romance

• matron

• 

Match the following:

• tedious

• powerful and effective language

• eloquence

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• tedium

• tastelessly showy

• garish

• the quality or state of being boring

• eloquent

• fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

Match the following:

• dissemble

• to make believe with the intent to deceive

• thither

• a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial

• bier

• to make oneself guilty of telling untruths in a court of law

• perjure

• to or toward that place; away from the speaker

• perjury

• the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation

Match the following:

• enamored

• to listen; used mostly in the imperative

• purgatory

• marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

• imperative

• information about recent and important events

• tidings

• the temporary condition of torment or suffering; state after death in which according to Roman Catholic belief the souls of those who die in God's grace are purified of their sins by suffering

• hark

• an important, crucial, essential thing; a directive or command

Match the following:

• denotation

• the literal or primary meaning of a word

• denote

• not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper

• carrion

• taking words in their usual meaning or most basic sense

• literal

• 
• unseemly

• to be a sign or indication of

Match the following:

• exorbitant

• (of a price or amount charged) that is unreasonably high

• proper

• what is genuine, suitable or appropriate

• usury

• your usual mood

• disposition

• to decorate

• bedeck

• the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest

Match the following:

• sojourn

• to spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

• fickle

• showing deep unhappiness of thought

• sullen

• showing a brooding ill humor

• brooding

• a great deal of fuss, concern, or commotion

• ado

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments