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Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Rouse

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to wake or intensify

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to wake or intensify

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Rouse

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Enjoin

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To demand or encourage someone to do something.

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To demand or encourage someone to do something.

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Enjoin

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Orison

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A prayer (in religion).

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A prayer (in religion).

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Orison

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Dirge

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To express grievance for the dead.

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To express grievance for the dead.

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Dirge

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Ordained

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The action of passing a decree or demand.

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The action of passing a decree or demand.

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Ordained

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Immoderate

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To act in a way where you are deemed unsensible. This can also mean too much.

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To act in a way where you are deemed unsensible. This can also mean too much.

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Immoderate

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Prorogue

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To stop a meeting of a gathering of important leaders.

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To stop a meeting of a gathering of important leaders.

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Prorogue

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15
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Surcease

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Without stopping.

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Without stopping.

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Surcease

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17
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Abate

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Something that is negatively intense, dying down.

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Something that is negatively intense, dying down.

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Abate

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Behest

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Someone’s instructions or demands.

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Someone’s instructions or demands.

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Behest

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Prostrate

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To be weak due to an illness.

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To be weak due to an illness.

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Prostrate

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Pestilent

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Has a risk to life and can do a lot of harm.

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Has a risk to life and can do a lot of harm.

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Pestilent

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Inundation

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A surplus amount of people things.

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A surplus amount of people things.

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Inundation

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27
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Apt

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An adjective used to tell if something is fitting or appropriate for another thing.

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An adjective used to tell if something is fitting or appropriate for another thing.

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Apt

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29
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Consort

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When one would associate with another and usually earned the disapproval of the group one came from.

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When one would associate with another and usually earned the disapproval of the group one came from.

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Consort

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Haste

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To do something quickly and caring more about the fact that it got done as the quality was ignored.

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32
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To do something quickly and caring more about the fact that it got done as the quality was ignored.

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Haste

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Garish

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To be excessively bright and colorful.

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34
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To be excessively bright and colorful.

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Garish

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35
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Carrion

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The rotting remains of an animal that has died.

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36
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The rotting remains of an animal that has died.

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Carrion

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37
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Dote

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To love and favor greatly to a large extent.

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38
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To love and favor greatly to a large extent.

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Dote

39
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Lamentation

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To be in a state of sadness and grieving.

40
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To be in a state of sadness and grieving.

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Lamentation

41
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Beseech

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To quickly ask someone to do something.

42
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To quickly ask someone to do something.

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Beseech

43
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Appertaining

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To relate to something else.

44
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To relate to something else.

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Appertaining

45
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Abhor

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To dislike something or someone.

46
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To dislike something or someone.

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Abhor

47
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Bandy

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To discuss or share (message-wise) with another.

48
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To discuss or share (message-wise) with another.

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Bandy

49
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Vesta

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Dealing with a Roman Goddess named Vesta.

50
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Dealing with a Roman Goddess named Vesta.

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Vesta

51
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Effeminate

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For a man to act in the manner of a woman.

52
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For a man to act in the manner of a woman.

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Effeminate

53
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Invocation

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The action of sparking an interest in or asking for help.

54
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The action of sparking an interest in or asking for help.

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Invocation

55
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Discourse

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Typically caused by a sensitive topic that angers two or more parties and makes them dislike each other.

56
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Typically caused by a sensitive topic that angers two or more parties and makes them dislike each other.

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Discourse

57
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Entreat

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The manner of treating someone

58
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The manner of treating someone

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Entreat

59
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Enmity

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Constantly acting against or opposing someone.

60
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Constantly acting against or opposing someone.

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Enmity

61
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Perverse

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To purposefully act in a way that is invalid.

62
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To purposefully act in a way that is invalid.

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Perverse

63
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Repose

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To sleep

64
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To sleep

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Repose

65
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Baleful

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An adjective meaning threatening.

66
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An adjective meaning threatening.

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Baleful

67
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Sallow

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When one’s complexion is a yellow or brown color when they are unwell.

68
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When one’s complexion is a yellow or brown color when they are unwell.

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Sallow

69
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Lamentable

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To be unsatisfactory or up to standards.

70
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To be unsatisfactory or up to standards.

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Lamentable

71
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Importune

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To repetitively ask of someone

72
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To repetitively ask of someone

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Importune

73
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Assail

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To attack one violently

74
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To attack one violently

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Assail

75
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Tyrannous

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To act in a manner of tyranny or unjustly abusing power

76
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To act in a manner of tyranny or unjustly abusing power

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Tyrannous

77
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Beseem

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To seem or profit someone

78
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To seem or profit someone

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Beseem

79
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Forswear

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To agree to surrender oneself or something (materialistic)

80
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To agree to surrender oneself or something (materialistic)

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Forswear

81
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Propagate

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To spread certain ideas or words

82
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To spread certain ideas or words

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Propagate

83
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Partisan

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An unwavering support of a person, group, or idea.

84
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An unwavering support of a person, group, or idea.

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Partisan

85
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Transgression

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Something that someone does to provoke the law.

86
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Something that someone does to provoke the law.

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Transgression

87
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Pernicious

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Something that has a slow, harming effect.

88
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Something that has a slow, harming effect.

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Pernicious

89
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Augment

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To add to something and make larger

90
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To add to something and make larger

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Augment

91
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Posterity

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The generations of people in the future

92
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The generations of people in the future

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Posterity

93
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Portentous

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Acting of warning and predicting something big that would happen whether positive or negative

94
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Acting of warning and predicting something big that would happen whether positive or negative

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Portentous

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