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"Romeo and Juliet" Vocabulary from Act 3

Wed Oct 18 13:01:43 EDT 2017
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is the classic story of love in the midst of hate, and whether that love is strong enough and wise enough to survive what surrounds it (etext found here). Learn these word lists for each act of the tragedy: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4, and Act 5.
apt
An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
consort
Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo.
vile
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting
haste
Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be out.
plague
A plague o' both your houses!
scorn
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
stout
...Underneath whose arm
An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled
garish
All the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
banish
Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished.
fiend
Note the wordplay here -- calling someone both a "fiend" and "angelical" is an oxymoron
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
carrion
More validity,
More honourable state, more courtship lives
In carrion-flies than Romeo.
dote
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
Doting like me and like me banished,
Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
lamentation
Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
woo
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
beseech
Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Hear me with patience but to speak a word.

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