Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Vocab

Match the following:

• slack

• beyond reasonable limits

• slacken

• to make less active or fast

• sway

• to loosen the tension on or tightness of something

• moderate

• controlling influence

• immoderate

• make or become less extreme, intense, or violent; average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Match the following:

• pensiveness

• the state of being engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

• pensive

• a burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

• shroud

• showing deep sadness, thoughtfulness

• inundation

• the overflowing of a body of water onto normally dry land

• inundate

• to overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with; to flood

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Match the following:

• present

• the giving of something to someone, especially as part of a formal ceremony; a speech or talk in which a new product, idea, or piece of work is shown and explained to an audience

• commissioner

• a person appointed to a role; a representative of the supreme authority in an area; a person appointed to regulate a particular sport

• presentation

• in the near future

• presently

• in a particular place; existing or occurring now; the period of time now occurring

• commission

• the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Match the following:

• issuer

• a stopping

• surcease

• the action of supplying or distributing something, especially for official purposes; the action of formally making something known

• issuance

• a legal entity that develops, registers and sells securities to finance its operations

• issue

• a phenomenon caused by some previous phenomenon; and important topic or problem for debate or discussion

• cease

• to bring or come to an end

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Match the following:

• starkness

• capable of moving or bending freely

• behest

• an authoritative command or request

• stark

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• adornment

• a thing which decorates; an ornament; the act of decorating something

• supple

• the quality of being empty, simple, or clear, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Match the following:

• arbitrate

• a group of people related by blood or marriage

• arbitration

• the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute

• habitually

• by way of habit; customarily

• kin

• a group of persons of common ancestry; clan; one's relatives

• kindred

• to act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following:

• headstrong

• the state of lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward; extreme physical weakness or emotional exhaustion

• enjoinder

• an authoritative request; command. ; interdiction, prohibition; injunction

• enjoin

• to give instructions to or direct somebody to do something

• prostration

• habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; stubborn

• prostrate

• 

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Match the following:

• provision

• worthy of adoration or respect

• reverend

• to feel deep respect or to admiration for something.

• provide

• the action of providing or supplying something

• warrant

• to make available for use; supply; to make adequate preparation for (a possible event)

• revere

• to show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following:

• cull

• to look for and gather

• subtly

• a reverent petition to a deity

• behoove

• in a manner difficult to detect or grasp

• orison

• to be appropriate or necessary

• subtle

• so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe; delicately complex and understated; making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following:

• stifle

• to die from lack of oxygen

• loathsome

• feel intense dislike or disgust for

• loathe

• a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

• whit

• physically offensive or sickening

• stifling

• (of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating; feeling constrained or oppressed

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4