Macbeth

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Macbeth

• Vocabulary

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Act I Vocabulary

• Minion (n) a servant of a powerful person
• Deign (v) to condescend to accept
• Thither (adv) toward that place or point
• Corporal (adj) of the body
• Thane (n) a person who holds lands of the king
• Surmise (n) a thought that something is possible

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Act I continued

• Interim (n) an intervening time
• Recompense (verb) to repay
• Harbinger (n) a person who goes ahead to make
  known the approach of another
• Chastise (verb) to criticize severely
• Metaphysical (adj) imaginary or fanciful

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Act II Vocabulary

• Husbandry (n) careful, thrifty management of
  domestic resources
• Summons (n) a request, demand, call to duty,
  task, or performance
• Palpable (adj) plainly visible tangible
• Marshal (v) to usher or lead
• Surfeit (n. or v.) excessive

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Act II continued

• Contend (v) to struggle oppose
• Clamor (n) to make loud noises to drive, force,
  influence noisily
• Badge (n) to furnish or mark
• Multitude (n) a great many
• Augment (v) to make greater or larger
• Requite (v) to avenge
• Dire (adj) dreadful, horrible

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Act III-IV Vocabulary

• Grave (n)dignified and somber in manner
• Barren (adj.)incapable of producing offspring
• Rancor (n) bitter, hatred, malice
• Regard (v) concern or awareness
• Affliction (n) a state or place of pain
• Jovial (adj.) characterized by a joyous
  humor/mood

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Continued

• Avaricious (adj.) greedy
• Cauldron (n) a large pot used for boiling
• Confound (v) confuse defeat
• Conjure (v)request earnestly compel
• Coveted (v) to wish for longingly

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Act V Vocabulary

• Perturb (v) to disturb greatly to make uneasy
  and anxious
• Guise (n) outward appearance or aspect mode of
  dress
• Sere (n or v) withered, dry
• Purge (v) to purify or cleanse to get rid of
  sin, guilt, defilement, or disease
• Famine (n) severe hunger starvation a
  wide-spread food shortage

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continued

• Ague (n) a chill or a fit of shivering as a
  result of a fever or disease
• Arm (v) put on weapons
• Usurp (v) to seize and hold the power of another
  by force to tale over or occupy without right