English 10

We are beginning Romeo and Juliet this week.  Your vocabulary words for Act I are as follows:

1. augment (verb):  to make greater or supplement 
2. boisterous (adj): rowdy and rough 
3. valiant (adj): courageous 
4. pernicious (adj): very harmful and destructive 
5. portentous (adj): dealing with a sign, omen, or forewarning 
6. posterity (noun): future generations 
7. profane (adj): showing contempt toward sacred things 
8. choler (noun): anger or irritability 
9. virtuous (adj): having excellent morals; righteous 
10. prodigious (adj): extraordinary; marvelous