VOCABULARY - Romeo and Juliet ‘Act I Par I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you ean find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provide. 1. Profaners ofthis neighbor-stained ste! ~/Will they not hay? What ho! You men, you beasts, 2. That quench the fire of your pernicious rage/With purple fountains issuing from your veins, 3. With tears augmenting the fresh moming's dew,/Adding to clouds more clouds with hs deep sighs. 4. Black and portentous must this humor prove/Unless good counsel my the cause remove 5. Why, such is love's ranseression /Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast ‘hich thou wilt prorogate, to have it pressed 6. Cuts beauy oft fom all poster Shei too fir, too wise, wisely to fei 7 Che desperate grief ores with enothe’s Innis 8, Transparent heretics, be bured for lias! 9. Here in Verona, ladies of estzem/Are made already mother. 10, And what scared in his fr volume fend writen nthe margent of his eyes 11, Too de, 00 boisterous anit pics like thom 12. On the forefinger of an alderman,/Drawn witha team of ile atomies! Athovagt men's noses as they ie asleep 13. Then dreams he of another benefice/Sometime she driveth oer a soldier's neck, 14. Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged. 15. Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/That I must love a loathed enemy. 2Romeo Vocabulary Act I Continued Part Il Determining the Meaning ‘You have tied to figure out the meanings ofthe vocabulary words for Act | Now match ihe Vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions I'tere are words for which you canno\ figure ‘ut the definition by contextual clues and by process of elimination, look them up in a dictonary, — Le profaners ‘A. future generations = 2 pemicious 'B. to dislike (someone or something) greatly = 3. augmenting C. foreboding = 4 portions D. 10 free ftom impurities 5. transgression E. a member of the municipal legislative body = 6 posterity . indistinctly heaed; Zant 7. languish G. evil; wicked = 8 haeeties H. a church office endowed with fixed cepital assets S.esteem 1. to become weak or feeble 10. obscured 4. a violation ofa law, command or duty 11 boisterous K, those who have ineverence for what is sacred 17 alderman L. regard with respect 13 benefice M. rough and stormy; violent 14. purged 'N. aperson who holés contvavessial opinions 15 foatnea ‘©. tomake (something already developed) greater 3Vocabulary - Romeo and Juliet Act IL Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues ‘Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write whet you think the underlined words mean in the space provided. 1, That were some spite. My invocatiow/Is fair and hones, and in his mistess' name 2. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/Who is already sick and pale with erie 3, Her eye discourses, I will answer it. 4. Then twenty oftheir swords, Look thou but sweet/And Iam proof against their enmity, 5. Therefore pardon me,/And not impute this yielding to light love ‘Which the dark night hath so discovered, 6. And where the worser is predominant/ull soon te canker death eats up that plan, 7. Ipray the, chide not Sbe whom I love nowDoth grace fr grace and love for love alow Tom your household sansor to pare Jove. 9. Why, is not this a lamentable thing 10. Is this the poultice for my aching bones? 11 Tam the drudge and til in your detigh/But you shal bear the burden soon at night Part I Determining the Meaning - Match the vocabulary words to thei dictionary definitions. 16. invocation ‘A. most commen or conspicuous 17 envious B. to express disapproval 18 discourse C. aperson who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work 19. enmity 1D. a soft, moist mass of bread, meal, clay or other substance 20. impute E, to atebute; credit 21. predominant F. an incantation used in conjuring =n chide G. to narate or discuss 25. rancor H. to express grief for or about 24. lamentable L. feeling, expressing or characterized by envy 25. poultice J, deep-seated, often mutual hatred 26. drudge K. bitter 34Vocabulary - Romeo and Juliet - Act IIL Part I: Using Prior Knowiedge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Reta the sentence. Use any clues you can find inthe seutence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided |. Doth much excuse the appertaining age/To such a greeting, 2, ‘Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, 3. Wit thy black mantle il strange love grown bold/Think tre love acted simple modes, 4, So tedious is this day/As isthe night before some festiveal? ‘To an impatient child that hath new robes 5. Take up those cords, Poor ropes, you are heguiled /Both you and I, for Romeo is exiled 6. More validity More honorable state, more courtship, lives 7. Oh, how my heart abhors/To hear him named and cannot come to him,’ ‘To wreak the love I bore my cousin/Uipon his body that hath slaughtered him? 8. Good Father, I beseech you on my knees Hear me with patience but to speak a word Part I: Determining the Meaning You have tried to figure out the meanings ofthe vocabulary words for Act II], Now match the vocabulary words fo their dictionary definitions. If there ae words for which you cannot figure out the definition by contextual elues and by process of elimination, look them up ina dictionary 27. appertaining Ato deceive by guile 28. consort B. well grounded 29. mantle C. to request earnestly 30 tedious D.a companion or partner 31. beguiled Eto belong as a proper function or part 32. validity . moving or progressing very slowly 33. abhors G.to eject vehemently 34. beseech H.acloak 35Vocabulary - Romeo and Juliet - Acts IV & Act V Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and ‘write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided 1, To stop the inundation of her tears Which, to much minded by herself alone! May be put from her by society. 2. Thhear thou must, and nothing may prorogueit/On Thursday next be married to this County Shall play the umpire arbtvating that/Which the commission of thy years and art Could to no issue of true honor bring, 4, For Ihave need of many grisons/To move the Heavens to smile upon my state! ‘Which, well thou knows, is exoss and ful of sin 5. No, madam, we have culled such nevessaries/As are behooveful for out state tomorrow. 6. But one thing to rejoice and solace in/And cruel death hath catched it from my sight! 7. Our solemn hymns to sullen dizaee change/Our bridal lowers serve fora buvied wonpse/ ‘And al things change them tothe contrary 8. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand, 9. Noting this penury to myself I said/"An if man did need a poison now, 10. And here I stand, both to impench and purge/Myself condemned and myself excused Pat I: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to thei dictionary definitions. 35. inundation A. to gather, collect 36. prorogue B. destitution 37, abitrating C. to challenge the validity of try t discredit 38 orisons D.anomen 3:9. culled Ea prayer 40. solace F. to submit to settlement or judgment by arbitration Tal dirges G.to discontinue a session a2 presage HL. to cover with water 43. penwry 1. funeral hymn or lament 44 impeach J. comfort in sorraw 36