Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Words

abroach

absolver

addle

ado

amble

amerce

antic

apace

apothecary

appertain

aqua vitae

arbitrate

assail

at odds

aweary

baleful

banishment

battlement

bauble

bawdy

befit

beget

beggary

benefice

beseem

beshrew

bestride

blazon

blister

booted

bower

buckler

burthen

by-and-by

caitiff

canker

carrion

catling

chambermaid

charnel house

chastity

chide

choler

churl

clout

cock-a-hoop

cockatrice

conduit

confines

conjuration

constrain

contagion

counterfeit

countervail

cram

crotchet

cull

curfew

dateless

deadly sin

deathbed

deck up

deflower

demesne

dexterity

digress

dirge

disparagement

dispatch

dispraise

dissembler

distemper

distill

diver

doff

doomsday

doublet

dowdy

dram

dramatis personae

drivel

drudge

ducat

duellist

dun

effeminate

engrossing

environ

eyeless

falconer

fay

fee simple

feign

fettle

fickle

fiddlestick

fleck

fleer

flourish

fool’s paradise

forefather

forsooth

forswear

fray

gad

garish

gore

gossamer

grindstone

hap

harlotry

hay

heartsick

hence

hereafter

heretic

herring

hie

hither

hoar

holy order

impeach

inauspicious

inconstant

intercession

inundation

invocation

jack

jest at

jocund

jointure

knave

ladybird

lamentation

Lammas

languish

lark

lenity

lenten

liege

lineament

livery

loggerhead

loin

loins

loll

maidenhead

maidenhood

mandrake

mangle

mangled

mannerly

mar

marchpane

masker

masque

masterless

mattock

maw

medlar

medlar tree

mickle

minim

minion

minstrel

misadventure

misapply

miscarry

mischance

misfortune

misgive

monger

morrow

muffle

naught

nightingale

nuptial

ordain

orison

osier

packthread

paramour

parson’s nose

passado

pate

pennyworth

penury

perforce

pernicious

persona

peruse

perverse

pestilent

phaeton

physic

pilgrim

plat

pomegranate

pomegranate tree

portentous

poultice

pox

prate

prefix

presage

pricking

princely

procure

prodigious

profane

prolixity

propagate

pule

pump well

purblind

purgatory

quince

rancour

rapier

ravening

rearward

redress

restorative

revel

riband

rind

rite

roe

rosemary

rough in

Saint Francis

sake

saucy

scathe

sententious

sepulchre

shank

shine at

shrift

simpleness

sirrah

slander

slew

smatter

smelt

spleen

stained

steerage

stratagem

strew

sucking

sunder

supple

surcease

sweetmeat

swing about

sycamore

tackle

tainted

tallow

tarry

teat

tempest-tossed

tetchy

tilt

tithe

topgallant

torchbearer

trencher

truckle

turn the tables

unbound

unfirm

unhallow

unruly

unsavoury

usurer

valour

vestal

vial

visage

visor

waddle

wanting

waverer

whit

whoreson

wink at

wondrous

wormwood

yea

yew

yoke