| A | B |
|---|
| Shrift | confession to a priest |
| Wherefore | why |
| star-crossed | ill-fated |
| bite your thumb at | insult |
| pernicious | poisonous |
| fray | fight |
| commend | give my regards |
| aqua-vitae | brandy |
| beguiled | tricked, deceived |
| 'pothercary | pharmacist |
| jocund | joyful |
| fortune | fate |
| unsavory | distasteful |
| banished | exiled |
| distraught | disturbed |
| distempered | upset |
| Phoebus | sun god |
| Inauspicious | unlucky |
| Penury | poverty |
| Dispute | argument |
| Inexorable | unmovable |
| Rancour | rage |
| Forsworn | betrayed |
| Foil | character whose personality is in striking contrast to another's |
| Soliloquy | speech a character gives alone on stage |
| Oxymoron | phrase or expression that is seemingly contradictory |
| Foreshadowing | technique of hinting about events to come |
| comic relief | humorous scenes that ease emotional intensity |
| bawdy | rude, low-brow comedy, of questionable taste |
| buffoon | a ridiculous clown |
| garrulous | overly talkative |
| atomies | tiny fairy-like creatures |
| parson | minister |
| vile | horrible, terrible |
| rapier | sword |
| palmer | a pilgrim traveling to a holy place |
| conjure | use magic to make something appear |
| discourses | speaks |
| enmity | hatred |
| vexed | angered |
| chide | scold |
| vial | small bottle |
| pestilence | disease that spreads to many |
| discords | arguments |
| aside | line not meant to be heard by other characters |
