Macbeth Vocabulary

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Plight

(Act 1)

Back 1

n.
Unfavorable state, situation, or condition

Front 2

Broil

(Act 1)

Back 2

n.
Quarrel, brawl, or battle

Front 3

Disdain

(Act 1)

Back 3

v.
To treat or look upon with contempt; unworthy of notice

Front 4

Vantage

(Act 1)

Back 4

n.
Advantage, benefit, or gain

Front 5

Flout

(Act 1)

Back 5

n.
To show contempt for, scorn

Front 6

Corporal

(Act 1)

Back 6

adj.

of or relating to the body

Front 7

harbinger

(Act 1)

Back 7

n.
One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; who signals the approach of another

Front 8

Weird

(Act 1)

Back 8

Fate-determining or destiny

Front 9

Impede

(Act 1)

Back 9

v.
To obstruct the progression of an act

Front 10

Beguile

(Act 1)

Back 10

v.
To deceive those around us

Front 11

Quell

(Act 1)

Back 11

v.
to murder

Front 12

Wassail

(Act 1)

Back 12

v.
to convince; overpower

Front 13

mettle

(Act 1)

Back 13

n.
Spirit

Front 14

Warder

(Act 1)

Back 14

n.
Gaurdian

Front 15

Fantasical

Act 1

Back 15

adj.
Based of or existing only in fantasy; unreal; imaginary

Front 16

Husbandry

Act 2

Back 16

n.
Careful, thrifty management of domestic resources

Front 17

Summons

Act 2

Back 17

n.
a request, demand, call to duty, task of performance

Front 18

Still

Act 2

Back 18

v.
Always, continue to

Front 19

Franchise

Act 2

Back 19

v.
To make or set free

Front 20

Palpable

Act 2

Back 20

adj.
Plainly visible, tangible (real)

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Marshal

Act 2

Back 21

v.
to usher or lead

Front 22

Surfeit

Act 2

Back 22

v.
To eat or drink excessively

Front 23

Contend

Act 2

Back 23

v.
to struggle, oppose

Front 24

Clamor

Act 2

Back 24

v.
to make loud noises; to drive, force, influence noisily

Front 25

Badge

Act 2

Back 25

v, adj.
to furnish a mark with a badge; a characteristic mark

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Benison

Act 2

Back 26

n.
a spoken blessing

Front 27

Verity

Act 3

Back 27

n.
The truth; the real facts or circumstances

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Indissoluble

Act 3

Back 28

adj.
firm, stable; perpetual binding or obligatory

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Invention

Act 3

Back 29

n.
fabrication; fiction; plan

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Unlineal

Act 3

Back 30

adj.
not of direct descent or succession

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Probation

Act 3

Back 31

n.
trial; proof

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Fancy

Act 3

Back 32

n.
idea or opinion with little foundation or justification

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Scotch

Act 3

Back 33

v.
To wound or render harmless for a time

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Seel

Act 3

Back 34

v.
to make blind; to close a person's eyes

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Vouch

Act 3

Back 35

v.
to allege, affirm, guarantee

Front 36

Bide

Act 3

Back 36

v.
to remain, wait

Front 37

Harp

Act 4

Back 37

v.
to give voice ot utterance to

Front 38

Avarice

Act 4

Back 38

n.
Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate desire to gain or hoard wealth

Front 39

Scruples

Act 4

Back 39

n.
Tiny parts; doubt; difficulty

Front 40

Slope

Act 4

Back 40

v.
To bend or let fall

Front 41

Perturbation

Act 5

Back 41

n.
A mental agitation

Front 42

Charge

Act 5

Back 42

v.
to suffuse (permeate) with emotion

Front 43

Mortify

Act 5

Back 43

adj.
Dead to the world; deadened; destroyed

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Gentry

Act 5

Back 44

n.
Rank according to birth; nobility; nobles

Front 45

distempered

Act 5

Back 45

adj.
Disordered; deranged; disturbed

Front 46

Upbraid

Act 5

Back 46

v.
to bring forward as grounds or basis for censure (officially disapproved of)

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Skirr

Act 5

Back 47

v.
To fly, whir, scour

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Raze

Act 5

Back 48

v.
to obliterate; destroy completely

Front 49

Pristine

Act 5

Back 49

adj.
having original purity; uncontaminated

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Treatise

Act 5

Back 50

n.
Tale; talk