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Macbeth Vocab
Question | Answer |
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balm | healing ointment, salb |
recompense | reward or compensate |
surfeited | overfilled or glutted |
augment | to increase |
corporal | relating to the body |
disburse | pay out, spread around |
understatement | under exaggeration |
ere | before |
peerless | matchless, unequaled |
impede | hinder, stop |
kin | relatives |
trifle | something not important |
anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beggining of two or more lines or sentences |
heath | meadow |
plight | serious and difficult situation |
equivocator | one who distorts truth or uses double meaning |
palpable | clear, tangible, definite |
prate | talk |
beget | give birth to |
curb | restraing |
sieve | strainer |
hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
apparition | ghost |
anon | at once, right away |
vantage | view point |
sentinel | guard |
Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
sooth | truth |
chalice | cup |
fell | evil |
foreshadowing | hinting at what is to come |
entreat | beg or ask |
renown | glory or distinction |
soliloquy | character speech when alone on stage |
O'er | over |
aside | thinking aloud so the audience can hear the speakers thoughts or speaking to one character and others can't hear |