Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Part 3

Heretics (noun), page 33

• Definition: Someone who has an opinion that is opposite to or against the official or popular opinion.

Disparage (verb), page 55

• Definition: To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value him, her, or it.

Pilgrim (noun), page 57

• Definition: A person who makes a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons.

Gall (noun), pages 23, 57

• Definitions:
  1. Rudeness and the quality of being unable to understand that your behaviour or what you say is not acceptable to other people.
  2. Bile, as found in the gallbladder of an animal.
  3. Something bitter or severe.
  4. Bitterness of spirit, resentment.

Heir (noun), page 65

• Definition: A person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other person dies.

Peril (noun), page 75

• Definition: Serious and immediate danger.

Enmity (noun), page 75

• Definition: The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.

Perjured (adjective), page 75

• Definition: False, in a way that involves telling an untruth in a court after taking an oath.

Idolatry (verb), page 77

• Definition: The worship of idols; very great admiration or respect for someone or something, often too great.

Repose (noun, verb), page 77

• Definitions:
  1. A state of rest, sleep, or tranquility.
  2. To be lying or situated in a particular place.