Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

Question 1

Remedy

Answer 1

1. a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury
2. the margin within which a coin is minted may differ from the standard fineness and weight
3. set right (an undesirable situation)

Question 2

Retire

Answer 2

• leave one’s job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment.
• withdraw to or from a particular place

Question 3

Sullen

Answer 3

• bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy
• a sulky or depressed mood

Question 4

Vile

Answer 4

extremely unpleasant

morally bad; wicked

of little worth or value

Question 5

Rancor

Answer 5

bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing

Question 6

Absolve

Answer 6

set or declare (someone) free of guilt, to responsibility.

give absolution for a sin

Question 7

Sojourn

Answer 7

a temporary stay.

stay somewhere temporarily

Question 8

Solemn

Answer 8

formal and dignified

not cheerful or smiling; serious

characterized by sincerity

Question 9

Adversary

Answer 9

one’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute

Question 10

Chide

Answer 10

scold or rebuke

Question 11

Adversity

Answer 11

difficulties; misfortune

Question 12

Apothecary

Answer 12

a person or prepared and sold medicines and drugs

Question 13

Surcease

Answer 13

cessation

cease

to desist from action

Question 14

Chaste

Answer 14

abstaining from extramarital or from all sexual intercourse

not having any sexual nature or intention

without unnecessary ornamentation; simple or unrestrained

Question 15

Immoderate

Answer 15

not sensible or restrained; excessive

Question 16

Contagion

Answer 16

the communication or disease from one person to another by close contact

a disease spread by close contact

the spreading of harmful idea or practice

Question 17

Inundate

Answer 17

overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be health with

flood.

Question 18

Loathed

Answer 18

feel intense dislike or disgust for

Question 19

Pestilence

Answer 19

a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague

Question 20

Philosophy

Answer 20

the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

a particular system of philosophical thought

the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience

Question 21

Banishment

Answer 21

the punishment of being sent away from a country or other place

the action of getting rid of something unwanted

Question 22

Calamity

Answer 22

an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress

Question 23

Dirge

Answer 23

a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite

a mournful song of piece of music or poem

Question 24

Augment

Answer 24

make (something) greater by adding to it; increase

Question 25

Effeminate

Answer 25

with reference to a man - having characteristics and ways of behaving traditionally associated with women or regarded as inappropriate for a man

Question 26

Exile

Answer 26

the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons expel and bar (someone) from their native country

Question 27

Haste

Answer 27

excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry archaic term of hasten

Question 28

Fickle

Answer 28

changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.

Question 29

Belligerent

Answer 29

hostile and agressive a nation or person engaged in war or conflict

Question 30

Aloof

Answer 30

not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant - conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste

Question 31

Mutiny

Answer 31

an open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers refuse to obey the orders of a person in authority

Question 32

Sepulcher

Answer 32

a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher

Question 33

Strife

Answer 33

angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict

Question 34

Woe

Answer 34

great sorrow or distress (hyperbolic)

Question 35

Lamentable

Answer 35

deplorably bad or unsatisfactory full of or expressing sorrow or grief

Question 36

Beguile

Answer 36

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way help (time) pass pleasantly

Question 37

Ambiguities

Answer 37

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness

Question 38

Provoke

Answer 38

stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion) in someone stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by crossing anger deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry

Question 39

Quarrel

Answer 39

a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good terms have a heated argument or disagreement

Question 40

Rapier

Answer 40

a thin, light sharp-pointed sword used for thrusting - quick and incisive (speech or intelligence)