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Macbeth Vocabulary
Acts I-V Vocabulary from Macbeth
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| voluptuousness | fullness, sensually pleasing or delightful; |
| surmise | to conjecture or guess. |
| sundry | various or diverse |
| stealthy | sneaky; lurking; |
| sovereign | a monarch; a king, queen, or other ruler. |
| prophetic | predictive; pertaining to a prophet. |
| predominance | having superiority in power. |
| perturbation | disturbance or agitation |
| pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin. |
| palpable | readily or plainly seen, heard, or perceived. |
| multitudinous | very numerous. |
| metaphysical | highly abstract, subtle, or abstruse. |
| malevolence | hatred; maliciousness. |
| liege | a fuedal lord entitled to allegiance. |
| jocund | cheerful, merry, happy. |
| infirmity | physical weakness or ailment |
| indissoluble | incapable of being dissolved. |
| harbinger | forerunner or herald |
| grafted | transplant or join |
| furbished | to restore to freshness; to polish. |
| equivocate | to use ambiguous or unclear expressions. |
| distempered | a deranged condition of mind or body. |
| dauntless | fearless |
| credulous | willing to believe or trust too readily. |
| clamorous | vigorous in demands or complaints; loud. |
| chastise | to criticize severely; to discipline. |
| avarice | insatiable greed for riches. |
| augment | to make larger. |