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Macbeth Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |