1. Cyrano de Bergerac
Act I Vocabulary

2. Burghers – middle-class citizens (bourgeois); merchants

3. Foils – fencing swords

4. Lackeys – low-level servants

5. Marquises – noblemen who rank one below the ranking of a duke

6. Proscenium – an area of a theater between the orchestra and the curtain

7. Coquettish – flirtatious

8. Duenna – a governess; chaperone

9. Ode – a type of lyric poem usually addressed directly to a particular idea or object

10. Incredulously – skeptically; in disbelief

11. Obsequious – submissive, fawning

12. Pastoral – pertaining to the pleasant country life; rural

13. Viscount – a nobleman whose rank is one below that of an earl

14. Affable – pleasant, friendly

15. Farce – a comedic play containing much slapstick and a far-fetched plot

16. Pedantic – excessively wordy in a pretentious way

17. Protuberance – something that projects outward; a lump or bulge

18. Sublime – inspiring; of the highest moral worth