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English 8 Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

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  1. toil
    work hard
    What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
  2. strife
    bitter conflict; heated or violent dissension
    Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
  3. mutiny
    open rebellion against constituted authority
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.
  4. grudge
    a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.
  5. stealth
    the act of moving in a quiet or secretive way to avoid being noticed
    Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,
    That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;
    Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
  6. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
    In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
    Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
    What said my man, when my betossed soul
    Did not attend him as we rode? I think
    He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
  7. trudge
    walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    Go, sirrah, trudge about
    Through fair Verona; find those persons out
    Whose names are written there, and to them say,
    My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
  8. amble
    walk leisurely
    Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;
    Being but heavy, I will bear the light.
  9. cull
    remove something that has been rejected
    No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries
    As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:
    So please you, let me now be left alone,
  10. invocation
    the act of appealing for help
    That were some spite: my invocation
    Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name
    I conjure only but to raise up him.
  11. ambiguity
    unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
    Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
    Till we can clear these ambiguities,
    And know their spring, their head, their
    true descent;
  12. unwieldy
    difficult to use or handle because of size or weight
    But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
    Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
    O God, she comes!
  13. sunder
    break apart or in two, using violence
    O, what more favour can I do to thee,
    Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
    To sunder his that was thine enemy?
    Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
  14. bandy
    discuss lightly
    She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
    My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
    And his to me:
  15. dank
    unpleasantly cool and humid
    Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
    The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
  16. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
    Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for
    the--No; I know it begins with some other
    letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of
    it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good
    to hear it.
  17. garish
    tastelessly showy
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.
    O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
  18. braggart
    a very boastful and talkative person
    A plague o'
    both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
    cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a
    rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
    arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I
    was hurt under your arm.
  19. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
    Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
    Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
  20. bawdy
    humorously vulgar
    'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the
    dial is now upon the prick of noon.
Created on Thu Apr 04 21:13:14 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Apr 06 19:42:23 EDT 2013)

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