Romeo & Juliet SAT Vocabulary

a serious event causing distress or misfortune

Juliet ___ the Friar to devise a plan that frees her from marrying Paris.

Juliet is ___ in her loyalty to Romeo and her refusal to marry Paris.

bitter, deep-seated ill will; animosity or antagonism

The apothecary gives Romeo the poison because he is living in ___, complete destitution.

lack of agreement, tension or strife, contention

discomfort or distress, annoyance, nuisance, irritation

immoral, lewd, licentious

to cover with water, to flood, to overflow

to lie or to be at rest or the absence of movement

to read or to examine with thoroughness or care

to intervene or to act as a mediator

showing contempt toward sacred things, to violate or defame

harsh, grim or desolate; extremely simple or severe

Lord Capulet believes Juliet's disobedience is ____.

to send away with promptness or speed, quickness, haste, expediency

to effectively oppose or stop something from happening

to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative way

being completely overcome or exhausted, face down in submission

an earnest request or plea in which someone makes an appeal

Verona officers use clubs and __ to disperse the feuding Montagues and Capulets.

Tybalt is an excellent fighter because he his agile and ___.

courteous and gracious in manner; a strong, sweetened aromatic medicine or liqueur

strictness, severity, or harshness; the full severity of the law

to voice disapproval; to scold, admonish or chastise

a funeral hymn, a slow mournful musical composition

secret, concealed, clandestine, stealthy or surreptitious

to quit or leave entirely, to depart from, desert or abandon

excessive devotion, obsession, mania

When Juliet dies she is ___ in the family tomb.

having excellent morals, righteous, ethical, noble

to move upward, to climb or rise from a lower station

Juliet must ___ her family name in order to marry Romeo.

Mercutio thinks Tybalt ___ him, so he initiates the fight with Tybalt.

Romeo must ___ to Juliet's balcony and then climb back down in the morning.