Romeo and Juliet Vocab Words

unwieldy

awkward, clumsy

languish

to lose energy

dexterity

skill with hands

digress

to get off topic

calamity

disaster

fray

a fight

augment

to increase

portentous

ominous

pernicious

deadly

Mar

to disfigure

beseech

to beg

abate

to reduce in amount

disparagement

an insult that ruins someone’s reputation

beguile

to persuade through charm

profane

to treat something holy with disrespect

abhor

to regard with disgust

doff

to take off

capricious

fickle

inudate

to flood/overflow

prostrate

to bow down in humility or admiration