1. Quarrel,Noun
An Angry Disagreement
“Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast.”
Mercutio “your quarrel will escalate a proper fight if you don’t stop.”
2. Tension,Noun
A Stress Feeling
“in fewer than a hundred lines Shakespeare has created an Atmosphere of Tension where the least word or gesture can trigger off unthinking violence.
Benvolio : “I pray thee good Mercutio, let’s retire the day is hot the Capulets abroad
And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl for now these hot dayside the mad blood stirring”
The Tension is High
3.Honour,Noun
A sense of pride
Nurse : “An honour that I dream not of”
“I fight for honour”
4.Hoodwink’d,noun
To be Tricked
Benvolio:the date is out of prolixity we’ll have no Cupid Hoodwink’d with a scarf.
5.Woe , noun
Great sorrow or distress
Paris: Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,–
O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;–
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Or, wanting that, with tears distill’d by moans:
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
6.Tyrannous,noun
oppressive: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; “the oppressive government”; “oppressive laws”; “a tyrannical parent”; “tyrannous disregard of human rights”
Benvolio: alas that love,so gentle in his views,should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
7.Splendour,noun
magnificent and splendid appearance; grandeur.
Romeo:Ill go along no such sight to be shown but to rejoice in Splendour of mine now.
8.Lammas,noun
In the first day of August formerly observed in Britain as the harvest festival.
Nurse: Even or odd ,of all days in the year, come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she -God rest all Christian souls!
9.Grudge,noun
A persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury.
Chorus: From ancient grudge break to new mutiny , where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
10.Partisan,noun
A member of a armed group who secretly attacks the opposing side
Citizens:Clubs,bills, and partisans! Strike ! Beat them down with the capulets! Down with the montagues!
11.Confine,noun
keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).
Thou art like one of those fellows that when he
enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
upon the table and says ‘God send me no need of
thee!’ and by the operation of the second cup draws
it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.
12. Pilcher,noun
A scabbard, as of a sword.
Mercutio: Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine
lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you
shall use me hereafter, dry beat the rest of the
eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be out.
React!