English 9, Romeo and Juliet Vocab

Augment

To increase or intensify.

Adversary

Opponent, foe, enemy.

Chaste

Virtuous, decent, pure in style or manner, virginal.

Exquisite

Special beauty or charm.

Forfeit (n)

Fine, penalty (v): to lose or be liable to lose as a result of a crime.

Grievance

Problem causing resentment or complaint; grounds for a complaint or resentment.

Pernicious

Harmful, destructive, lethal.

Warrant (v)

To give adequate reasons for; to state with conviction.

Purge

Cleanse, forgive, absolve.

Solemnity

Being formal, dignified.

Conjure

To charge, and treat, charm; to call upon or command a spirit using a spell.

Envious

Full of jealousy of another person's possessions.

Peril

Exposure to injury, risk, or danger.

Perverse

Determined not to do what is expected, contrary.

Procure

To obtain or get through effort.

Chide

To scold; to find fault.

Distemper

To put out of temper, to disturb or sicken.

Intercession

The act of pleading or asking something for another person.

Perjury

The act of swearing falsely.

Harold

Messenger; (v.) to announce.

Abroad

Outside of normal home or territory.

Discover

To uncover, make known, reveal.

Exile

Prolonged separation from one’s home or native country.

Banish

To expel from a country or place by decree.

Mangle

To spoil, disfigure, ruin, mar badly.

Naught

Wicked, ruined (n) nothing, zero.

Tributary

Furnishing or adding to aid, auxiliary, contributory.

Purgatory

A place of temporary.

Fickle

Changeable casually, whimsical or inconstant emotionally.

Unaccustomed

Unusual.

Entreat

To ask for sincerely, to beg for.

Immoderately

Excessively, beyond reasonable boundaries.

Pensive

To be in deep thought, reflective, sad.

Prorogue

Prolong, postpone.

Resort

Last option, to go to frequently.

Wane

Decrease intensely.

Cunning

Made or shown with immense skill.

Prostrate

To fall oneself face down on the ground in humility.

Cull

To gather, choose, select.

Stifle

To smother, to suppress.

Kindred

Persons related to each other, family, tribe.

Loathsome

Revolting, hateful, disgusting, repulsive.

Presage

To foreshadow, forecast, predict.

Straight

Soon, immediately, directly.

Associate

To connect or bring into relation, to join as a companion or ally.

Pestilence

A deadly epidemic disease.

Adventure

To take a chance or risk, to dare.

Aloof

Reserved or indifferent.

Haughty

Proud, arrogant, snobbish.

Restorative

A means of restoring a person to consciousness, a means or renewing or revitalizing something.