Romeo & Juliet Act-4: Scene-3

Juan Carlos M.
this is vocabulary found in act 4 scene 3 of the tragedy by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.
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  1. orison
    reverent petition to a deity
    But, gentle Nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself tonight, for I have need of many orisons to move the heavens to smile upon my state, which, well thou know’st, is cross and full of sin.
    Juliet
    page 1
    line-3
  2. cull
    remove something that has been rejected
    We have culled such necessaries as are behooveful for our state tomorrow.
    Juliet
    page 1
    line-7
  3. behoove
    be appropriate or necessary
    We have culled such necessaries as are behooveful for our state tomorrow.
    Juliet
    page 1
    line-8
  4. vial
    a small bottle that contains liquid medicine
    Come, vial. (holds out the vial) What if this mixture do not work at all?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-20
  5. subtly
    in a manner difficult to detect or grasp
    What if it be a poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonored because he married me before to Romeo?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-26
  6. stifled
    held in check or kept back with difficulty
    Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, and there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-34
  7. conceit
    feelings of excessive pride
    The horrible conceit of death and night, together with the terror of the place— as in a vault, an ancient receptacle where for these many hundred years the bones of all my buried ancestors are packed; where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, at some hours in the night spirits resort—?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-38
  8. festering
    (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
    The horrible conceit of death and night, together with the terror of the place— as in a vault, an ancient receptacle where for these many hundred years the bones of all my buried ancestors are packed; where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, at some hours in the night spirits resort—?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-44
  9. loathsome
    physically offensive or sickening
    Alack, alack, is it not like that I, so early waking, what with loathsome smells, and shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, that living mortals, hearing them, run mad—?
    Juliet
    page 2
    line-47
  10. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
    Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, environèd with all these hideous fears, and madly play with my forefather’s joints, and pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud, and, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone, as with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
    Juliet
    page 3
    line-50
Created on Sun Mar 25 22:54:58 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Mar 27 00:46:43 EDT 2012)

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