Romeo and Juliet

Megan U.
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  1. piteous
    deserving or inciting a feeling of sympathy and sorrow
  2. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  3. augment
    enlarge or increase
  4. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  5. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  6. transgression
    the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
  7. propagate
    multiply through reproduction
  8. assail
    attack someone physically or emotionally
  9. posterity
    all future generations
  10. languish
    become feeble
  11. fortnight
    a period of fourteen consecutive days
  12. prolixity
    boring verbosity
  13. hoodwink
    conceal one's true motives from
  14. visage
    the human face
  15. benefice
    an endowed church office giving income to its holder
  16. ambuscade
    the act of hiding and waiting to make a surprise attack
  17. sirrah
    formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger
  18. disparagement
    a communication that belittles somebody or something
  19. semblance
    the outward or apparent appearance or form of something
Created on Wed Feb 06 22:03:22 EST 2013

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