Act 3 and 4 Romeo and Juliet vocabulary Flashcards
(20 cards)
lack of agreement; tension, strife, contention
discord
…And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords…
The act or instance of yielding or surrendering
Submissive
…O, calm, dishonorable, vile submission!
To pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take
Bandying
…Forbid this bandying in Verona streets…
Skill or cleverness in using the hands or body
Dexterity
…It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity retorts it…
Someone who disguises or hides the truth
Dissembler
…All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers…
To deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm, to delude
Beguile
…Poor ropes, you are beguiled, both you and I, for Romeo is exiled…
A serious event causing distress and misfortune; catastrophe
Calamity
…And thou art wedded to calamity…
False testimony under oath, being false witness, lying under oath
Perjury
…Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury…
To move upward
Ascend
…Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her…
Discomfort or distress
Vexation
…With Romeo till I behold him-dead-is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed…
to cover with a flood; overflow
inundation
…To stop the inundation of her tears…
deeply thoughtful
Pensive
…My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now…
A formal expression of opinion or intention
Resolution
…Do thou but call my resolution wise…
Faithless, disloyal,treasonous
Treacherous
…or my true heart with treacherous revolt…
easily bent
Supple
…Each part, deprived of supple government…
Harsh, grim or desolate, extremely simple or severe
Stark
…Shall stiff and stark and cold, appear like death…
falling down in submission
Prostrate
…By Holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here…
expressing grief; mournful or sorrowful
Lamentable
…O lamentable day!…
causing or expressing sadness or depression of mind or spirit
Melancholy
…our instruments to melancholy bells…
a slow, solemn, and mournful piece of music
Dirge
…Our solemn hymns to sulled dirges change…
