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Haneen Mohamed Vocabulary

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Define the words from the text making sure you specify the word’s part of speech.
1. collier ( )

2. choler ( )

3. pernicious ( )

4. forfeit

5. fray ( )

6. weary

7. shunned ( )

8. artificial

9. vanity

10. vexed

11. shrift ( )

12. envious

13. severity

14. posterity

15. precious

16. doth

17. wither ( )

18. marred

19. scope ( )

20. accustomed ( )

21. anguish

22. languish ( )
23. beauteous ( )

24. whither

25. devout ( )

26. transparent easy to perceive or protect (adjective)

27. heretics ( ) A person believing in or practicing religious heresy (noun)

28. enthusiasm intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval, (noun)

29. scant Barely, sufficient or adequate (adjective)

30. hinds A female dear (nour)

31. beseeming seem, befit (verb)

32. oppression mental pressure or distress (noun)

33. assailing Attack or criticize Strongly (verb)

34. lively (adjective) full of life and energy

35. fortnight A period of 2 weeks (noun)

36. wretch A sudden violent twist or pull (noun)

37. wetnurse (noun) a woman employed to suckle another woman's child

38. man of wax As handsome as a statue

39. valiant showing courage or determination (adjective)

40. beseech (verb) to ask someone to do something important for you

41. prolixity countable and uncountable, an axcess of words

42. hoodwinked To deceive or trick someone (noun)

43. boisterous (adjective) noisy, energetic, and cheerful

44. visage (noun) A persons facial expressions

45. visor (noun) a stiff brim at the front of a cap

46. benefice (noun) a permanent church appointment

47. deformities (noun) state of being deformed

48. wanton (adjective) deliberate and unprovoked

49. dun (adjective) dark or dusky

50. mire (noun) soft or slushy mud or dirt

51. reverence deep respect for someone or something, noun

52. dew Tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, noun

53. revels verb, noisy enjoyment

54. steerage action of a steering a boat, noun

55. marchpane

56. knaves

57. forswear

58. fickle

60. hither

61. fleer

62. spite

63. solemnity

64. endured

65. disparagement

66. virtuous

67. scathe

68. saucy

69. gall

70. intrusion

71. profane

72. pilgrim

73. “the chinks”

74. exeunt

Act II

75. purblind