Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary List
Act I

Pernicious: Very destructive

Prodigious: Exciting amazement or wonder

Choler: Anger

Disposition: Natural attitude/manner toward things

Augment(ing): To enlarge or increase

Boisterous: Exuberant, high-spirited

Assail(ing): To attack violently

Shrift: Confession

Transgression: Violation of a law

Portentous: Foreshadowing of something to come (usually something evil)

Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary List
Act II

Conjure: to summon up a spirit by magic

Consort: to associate

Prorogue: to postpone

Rancor: a continuing and bitter hate

Perjury: the telling of a lie while swearing to tell the truth

Invocation: a serious prayer or request for help

Variable: changeable

Jest: a mocking remark/joke

Wherefore: Why

Procure: to get

Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary List
Act III

Prevail: to be victorious or triumphant

Beguile: charm or delight, often in order to deceive

Appertain(ing): to belong as a part, function, etc.

Effeminate: having qualities associated with women (ie, weakness, delicacy, unmanly)

Agile: quick and easy of movement

Garish: too bright, showy

Dismal: causing gloom or misery; dark, gloomy

Calamity: a great misfortune, disaster

Sojourn: stay briefly, live someplace temporarily

Abhors: shrinks from in disgust, hates

Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary List
Act IV

Inundation: a flood

Pensive: thoughtful

Arbitrate (ing): settle, pass judgement

Martyr: one who suffers for a cause

Valor: bravery

Lament (able): grieve

Orisons: prayers

Provision: condition

Abate: stop

Detest (able): hate

Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary List
Act V

Presage: foreshadow

Pestilence: plague

Quarantine: to contain due to illness

Inexorable: unstoppable

Vengeance: revenge

Peruse: look over

Ensign: flag or military officer

Paramour: lover

Inauspicious: ill-fated

Purge: remove