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Romeo and Juliet: Act II Vocabulary

A. Teixeira

Vice

Commend

Definition: a fault, defect, or shortcoming

Synonym: flaw

The spy's heavy

footsteps became her vice because people could always hear her coming.

Envious

Definition: to name with special approval

Synonym: praise

The principal will commend honor roll students by distributing awards.

Definition: feeling discontent in regard to other people's possessions

Synonym: jealous

Jan was always envious of Marcia's beauty.

Conjure

Chide

Definition: to bring to mind

Synonym:

recall

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't conjure his multiplication facts.

Vex

Definition: to express disapproval of

Synonym: scold

After the boy broke the window

while playing basketball, his mother

chided him.

Definition:

to irritate,

annoy, or provoke

Synonym: agitate

He tried to vex

his friend by

continually

poking him.

Jest

Exile

Definition: a joke or witty remark

Synonym: banter

The two friends frequently told each other jests that other people couldn't understand.

The criminal

was exiled

from the

country and

sent to live

in his native

land.

Definition: to expel or banish a person (usually from his home or country)

Synonyms: ban

deport

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