Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

Boisterous

noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Disparagement

a communication that belittles somebody or something

Fray

a noisy fight

Importune

Beg persistently and urgently

Languish

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

Pernicious

exceedingly harmfull

Dote

shower with love; show excessive affection for

Prodigious

great in size, force, extent, or degree

Semblance

the outward or apparent appearance or form of something

Chide

scold or reprimand severely or angrily

Enmity

The feeling of a hostile person; a state of deep seated ill will

Feign

give a false appearance of

Homely

plain and un pretentious; lacking in physical beauty or proportion

Livery

a uniform especially worn b servants and chauffer’s

Rancor

feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill will

Nuptial

of or relating to a wedding

Purgatory

a temporary condition of torment or suffering

Absolve

excuse or free from blame

Doleful

filled with or evoking sadness

Inexorable

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason

Thwart

hinder or prevent ( the efforts, plans, or desires) of somebody or something

Shakespearean sonnet

a fourteen lines poem that consist of 3 quatrains and one couplet rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg

Dramatic irony

the reader or audience know more than the character they are following

Pun

play on words

Soliloquy

speech in which a character express their inner thoughts and feelings that aren’t intended to be heard or known by other characters in the play or audience members.

Aside

a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play

Hyperbole

extreme exaggeration

Oxymoron

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction