1. Word of the Day
Set 6

2. tragedy (Noun)
Definition: A drama in which the protagonist dies due to his or her hamartia or tragic flaw.
Sentence: Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy.

3. Foil (noun) Definition:
A character that serves as a contrast to another character.
Sentence:
Tybalt serves as a foil for Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet

4. Definition: Soon; shortly. Sentence: I'll see you anon.
Anon (adverb)
Definition: Soon; shortly.
Sentence: I'll see you anon.
From Romeo and Juliet:
“I come, anon” (Act 2 Scene 2)

5. Quarrel (noun)
Definition: An angry argument or disagreement, typically between people who are usually on good terms.
Sentence: He made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John.
From Romeo and Juliet:
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling (Act 3 Scene 1).

6. Arbitrate (verb) From Romeo and Juliet:
Definition: Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
The board has the power to arbitrate in disputes.
From Romeo and Juliet:
Therefore, out of thy long-experienc'd time, Give me some present counsel; or, behold, 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife Shall play the empire, arbitrating that Which the commission of thy years and art Could to no issue of true honour brings (Act 4 Scene 1)

7. Dowdy (adjective)
Definition: Unfashionable and without style in appearance.
Sentence: Why do you always wear those dowdy old clothes? 
From Romeo and Juliet:
Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen wench (marry, she had a better love to berhyme her), Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy, Helen and Hero hildings and harlots. This be a gray eye or so, but not to the purpose (Act 2 Scene 2).

8. Waddle (Verb)
Definition: To walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion.
Sentence: Three geese waddled across the road.
From Romeo and Juliet:
And since that time it is eleven years, For then she could stand high-lone; nay, by th' rood, She could have run and waddled all about; For even the day before, she broke her brow; And then my husband (God be with his soul! (Act 1 Scene 3).