Act 2, Scene 4 - Romeo and Juliet

Victoria G.
This is a list of vocabulary I've made from Act 2, Scene 4 from Romeo and Juliet.
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  1. wench
    frequent prostitutes
    "Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 4
  2. kinsman
    a male relative
    "Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father’s house."
    Speaker: Benvolio
    Line: 7
  3. shaft
    a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
    "He is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line:16
  4. torment
    treat cruelly
    "Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line:6
  5. passado
    (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
    Ah, the immortal passado, the punto reverso, the hai!
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 25
  6. cleft
    a split or indentation in something
    "He is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 15
  7. hardhearted
    lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
    "Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 4
  8. bosom
    squeeze tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
    "He rests his minim rests—one, two, and the third in your bosom."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 22
  9. butcher
    a brutal indiscriminate murderer
    "The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a gentleman of the very first house of the first and second cause."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line: 23
  10. duelist
    a person who fights duels
    "The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a gentleman of the very first house of the first and second cause."
    Speaker: Mercutio
    Line:23
Created on Thu Mar 22 00:51:29 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Mar 26 18:18:00 EDT 2012)

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