Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

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Mutiny

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NOUN
•rebellion against any authority

Other Forms:
•mutinied
•mutinous

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Star-crossed

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ADJECTIVE

•ill-fated or doomed

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Pernicious

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ADJECTIVE
•harmful

Other Forms:
•perniciously

Synonym:
•noxious

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Adversary

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NOUN
•opponent/enemy

Other Forms:
•adversarial

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Fray

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NOUN

•a battle

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Rapier

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NOUN

•a sword

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Solemnity

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NOUN
•state of being grave/somber

Other Forms:
•solemn

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Gall

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NOUN
•something bitter or severe

Synonym:
•rancor

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Prodigious

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ADJECTIVE
•unlucky, abnormal

Other Forms:
•prodigiously
•prodigiousness

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Conjure

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VERB
•to make something appear or seem to appear as if by magic

Other Forms:
•conjuring

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Wherefore

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ADVERB

•for what reason/purpose (why)

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Doff

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VERB
•to remove a piece of clothing

Other Forms:
•doffer

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Bescreened

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ADJECTIVE
•screened or hidden
•hard to see

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Counsel

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NOUN

•private secretive thoughts

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Enmity

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NOUN
•very deep unfriendly feeling

Synonym:
•rancor

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Prorogue

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VERB
•to postpone

Other Forms:
•proroguing

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Variable

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ADJECTIVE
•changing

Other Forms:
•variably
•vary

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Shrive

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VERB

•to free from guilt

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Vile

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ADJECTIVE
•wretchedly bad or offensive

Other Forms:
•vilely
•vileness

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Gallant

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ADJECTIVE

•heroic or brave

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Banishment

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NOUN
•expelling/compelling to depart

Other Forms:
•banisher
•banish

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Calamity

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NOUN

•great misfortune or disaster

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Prevail

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VERB
•to defeat, win, or overcome
•to be common

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Reconcile

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VERB
•to settle a dispute

Other Forms:
•reconcilement
•reconciler
•reconcilingly

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Commend

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VERB
•to praise

Other Forms:
•commendable
•commender
•commendingly

Synonyms:
•extol
•laud

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Abhor

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VERB
•to regard with extreme aversion
•to loathe

Other Forms:
•abhorer

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Pensive

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ADJECTIVE
•expressing thoughtfulness usually marked by sadness

Other Forms:
•pensively
•pensiveness

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Vial

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NOUN

•very small glass or plastic container

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Prostrate

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VERB
•to lay flat face down with humility

Other Forms:
•prostrative
•prostrater

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Fester

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NOUN
•a pussing spore

VERB
•to pus

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Shroud

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NOUN
•cloth or sheet covering corpse for burial

VERB
•to cover or conceal

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Distraught

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ADJECTIVE
•distracted
•deeply agitated

Other Forms:
•distraughtly

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Beguile

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VERB

•to cheat or take advantage of

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Dirge

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NOUN

•funeral tune

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Amorous

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ADJECTIVE
•showing, inclined to, or pertaining to love

Other Forms:
•amorously
•amorousity

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Sepulcher

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NOUN
•tomb

VERB
•to bury

Synonym:
•mausoleum

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Penury

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NOUN
•extreme poverty

Synonyms:
•indigence
•destitution