romeo and juliet vocab Flashcards
(36 cards)
fray
battle/ noisy fight
woe
suffering / misery
covert
SPY XECRECT
virtue
moral excellence / the quality of doing what is right
banish
expel from community or group
feign
pretend / make believe with the intent to deceive (sham)
augment
enlarge / increase
plague
any large-scale calamity
mutiny
open rebellion against constituted authority
posterity
offspring
lamentable
distressing
carrion
the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
siege
surround its walls / action of armed forces surrounds a forfited place
enmity
a state of deep-seated ill-will
benevolent
showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
purgatory
a temporary condition of torment or suffering
languish
pine away / failed to progress or succed
beguiled
filled with wonder and delight
boisterous
energetic / marked by exuberance and high spirits
discourse
carry on a conversation
inudation
flood
mercurial
fickle/ changeable
partisan
an enthusiastic of some person or activity
marred
blemish by injury or rough war