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Macbeth Vocabulary
Terms used in Macbeth that were incorporated into a sentence (5+)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| Blanched | to take the color out of |
| Clamored | noisy shouting |
| Dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued |
| Disposition | prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination |
| Entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade |
| Incensed | very angry, enraged |
| Jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| Largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| Mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| Multitudinous | including a multitude of individuals |
| Palpable | capable of being touched or felt |
| Posterity | all future generations |
| Pretense | a claim made or implied; especially : one not supported by fact |
| Purged | to clear of guilt, defilement |
| Rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| Rebuked | to criticize sharply |
| Repose | to rest; lie; place; |
| Suborned | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| Temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |