English 9, Romeo and Juliet Vocab

  1. Augment (v.): to increase or intensify

  2. Adversary (n.): opponent, foe, enemy

  3. Chaste (adj.): virtuous decent, pure in style or manner, virginal

  4. Exquisite (adj.): special beauty of charm

  5. Forfeit (n.): fine, penalty (v): to lose or be liable to lose as a result of a crim

  6. Grievance (n.): problem causing resentment or complaint; grounds for complains or resentment

  7. Pernicious (adj.): harmful, destructive, lethal

  8. Warrant (v.): to give adequate reasons for; to state with conviction

  9. Purge (v.): cleanse, forgive, absolve

  10. Solemnity (n.):  being formal, dignified


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

  2. Envious:  full of jealousy of another person's possessions.

  3. peril: exposure to injury, risk, or danger.

  4. Perverse: determined not to do what it's expected, contrary.

  5. Procure: to obtain or get through effort.

  6. chide: to scold.; to find fault

  7. Distemper:  should put out of temper, to disturb, or sicken

  8. Intercession: the act of pleading or asking something for another person.

  9. Perjury:  the act of swearing falsely.

  10. Harold: messenger, (v.) to announce 


Act 3 - 

  1. Abroad: outside of normal home or territory.

  2. discover:  to uncover, made known, reveal.

  3. exile: prolonged separation from one’s home or native country

  4. Banish: to expel from a country or place by decree 

  5. Mangle: to spoil, disfigure, ruin, mar badly

  6. Naught: wicked, ruined (n) nothing, zero

  7. Trubutary: furnishing or adding to aid, auxiliary, contributory

  8. Purgatory:  a place of temporary 

  9. Fickle: changeable casually, whimsical or inconstant emotionally

  10.  Unaccustomed: unusual 


Act 4 - 

  1. Entreat: to ask for sincerely, to beg for

  2. Immoderately: excessively, beyond reasonable boundaries 

  3. Pensive: to be in deep thought, reflective, sad

  4. Prorogue: prolong, postpone 

  5. Resort: last option, to go to frequently 

  6. Wane: decrease intensely 

  7. Cunning: made or shown with immense skill

  8. Prostrate: fall opneself face down on the ground in humility 

  9. Cull: to gather, choose, select

  10. Stifle: to smother, to suppress


Act 5- 

  1. Kindred: persons related to each other, family, tribe

  2. Loathsome:  revolting, hateful, disgusting, repulsive

  3. Presage:  to foreshadow, forecast, predict 

  4. Straight: soon, immediately, directly 

  5. Associate: to connect of bring into relation, to join as a companion or ally

  6. Pestilence: a deadly epidemic disease

  7. Adventure: to take a chance or risk, to dare 

  8. Aloof: reserved or indifference 

  9. Haughty: proud, arrogant, snobbish 

  10. Restorative: a means of restoring a person to consciousness, a means or renewing or revitalizing something.