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ACT 4 Vocab
Macbeth ACT 4 vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abjure | To relinquish or renounce |
| Anticipate | To expect or look forward to |
| Appease | To cause to become calmer or less agitated, especially by satisfying demands or making concessions |
| Avaricious | Greedy, especially for wealth |
| Bodements | Predictions |
| Braggart | One who boasts a lot |
| Cauldron | A round metal pot that is hung or placed over a fire and used for boiling liquids |
| Charm | A belief or notion that affects performance as if by magic; magical effect; spell |
| Credulous | Disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence |
| Cure | To restore to health; to recover completely from an illness or disease; to heal such a disease or condition |
| Curse | A magic spell or word of ill fortune |
| Demerits | Faults |
| Dolour | Great suffering or sorrow; trouble or misfortune |
| Enchant | To put under a magic spell, or as under a magic spell |
| Entrails | The inner organs of a human or other animal |
| Folly | Foolishness |
| Gibbet | A structure built for execution by hanging and for the public exhibition of those hanged; gallows |
| Grace | Beauty, harmony, or charm in bearing, appearance, or motion |
| Hag | An ugly old woman, especially one considered frightening or wicked; a woman believed to possess and use magical powers, especially for evil witch |
| Hemlock | Any of several poisonous herbs that have lacy green leaves and bear small white flowers |
| Integrity | A strong sense of honesty and morality; firmness of moral and ethical character |
| Intemperance | The expression of a desire that someone or something might suffer lasting misfortune, or, in religious thinking, the sin of wishing misfortune |
| Judicious | Showing wisdom or good sense |
| Laudable | Worthy of praise |
| Legions | Military forces |
| Newt | A small salamander |
| Nigh | Near |
| Noble | A titled or elite person; any person considered to be of high moral or mental character or excellence |
| Orphan | A child whose parent has died and who has not been adopted/ A person, especially a child, whose parents have died |
| Pernicious | Having a very harmful or fatal effect; injurious, deadly, or destructive |
| Potent | Having strength; powerful |
| Redress | To make restitution to or for |
| Sanctify | To make sacred or holy |
| Scepter | A ceremonial staff that symbolizes a monarch's authority |
| Scruples | Reservations or doubts |
| Sear | To burn or scorch |
| Sovereignty | Supreme power or authority, especially over a state or other political body |
| Thrice | Three instances; three times |
| Vanquish | To defeat thoroughly, or to get by greater force; conquer |
| Venom | The poisonous fluid that snakes, insects, spiders, and other animals produce and transmit by biting or stinging |
| Vice | Lack of restraint in the indulgence of an appetite |
| Villain | An immoral or wicked person |
| Widow | A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried |
| Wit | Keen intelligence |
| Woe | Misfortune or distress |
| Yoke | A harness; something that oppresses or burdens a person |
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