Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings 1

This list covers As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet.
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  1. mewl
    cry weakly or softly
    At first, the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
  2. satchel
    luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom
    And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school.
  3. woeful
    affected by or full of grief or sadness
    And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
  4. ballad
    a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
    And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
  5. oath
    a solemn promise regarding your future acts or behavior
    Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel
  6. pantaloon
    trousers worn in former times
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon
  7. oblivion
    the state of being disregarded or forgotten
    Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
  8. dignity
    high office or rank or station
    Two households, both alike in dignity,
    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
  9. mutiny
    open rebellion against constituted authority
    Two households, both alike in dignity,
    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
  10. fatal
    having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
    A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
  11. loin
    either side of the backbone between the hipbones and ribs
    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
    A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
  12. piteous
    deserving or inciting a feeling of sympathy and sorrow
    Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
    Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
  13. continuance
    the property of enduring or continuing in time
    And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
    Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove
  14. toil
    productive work, especially physical work done for wages
    The which if you with patient ears attend,
    What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
  15. quarrel
    have a disagreement over something
    SAMPSON: My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.
  16. kinsman
    a male relative
    GREGORY: Say ‘better:’ here comes one of my master's kinsmen.
  17. swash
    make violent, noisy movements
    SAMPSON: Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
  18. devise
    come up with after a mental effort
    I do protest, I never injured thee,
    But love thee better than thou canst devise
  19. tender
    offer or present for acceptance
    And so, good Capulet,—which name I tender
    As dearly as my own,—be satisfied.
  20. vile
    morally reprehensible
    O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
  21. passado
    (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
    ROMEO: Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
    MERCUTIO: Come, sir, your passado.
  22. bandy
    exchange blows
    Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath
    Forbidden bandying in Verona streets
  23. plague
    any epidemic disease with a high death rate
    A plague o’ both your houses!
  24. confession
    the act of a penitent disclosing sinfulness before a priest
    PARIS: Come you to make confession to this father?
  25. spite
    meanness or nastiness
    JULIET: The tears have got small victory by that;
    For it was bad enough before their spite.
  26. slander
    words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
    JULIET: That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;
    And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
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