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Macbeth Act 5
Some like vocab or sumthin like that.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A small wooded area, especially one with little ground cover | Grove |
| A substance that counteracts poison or disease | Antidote |
| To enter into active and usually violent opposition against an established authority or political system | Revolt |
| Dead; killed or murdered, usually violently | Slain |
| The act of withdrawing from a place or situation | Retreat |
| To damage or spoil | Mar |
| Ideas, opinions, or preferences, sometimes not based on reason or reality; delusions | Fancies |
| The sound produced by a bell rung solemnly, as for a funeral | Knell |
| Regarded with intense loathing or horror; hated | Abhorred |
| An enemy in armed conflict or war; an opposing army or country | Foe |
| Violent or fierce anger, indignation, or resentment | Wrath |
| To see or personally experience | Witness |
| An expression of disapproval or distaste, often meaning "For Shame" | Fie |
| To give up; surrender; relinquish | Yield |
| Dark or gloomy | Murky |
| Anxiety; mental uneasiness | Perturbation |
| To walk in a proud, vain, or cocky manner | Strut |
| A branch of a tree | Bough |
| Exceptional strength, courage, or ability in battle | Prowess |
| A fever accompanied by recurring periods of chills and sweating | Ague |
| The expenditure of physical and mental effort in the performance of work | labour |
| To walk around and sometimes perform other actions while asleep | Sleepwalk |
| Not occurring at the appropriate time | Untimely |
| An overpowering and painful feeling of fear, shock, dread, or revulsion | Horror |
| People who come from families of high social standing | Gentry |
| A person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine | Epicure |
| A long and deep cut; a wound | Gash |
| An evil spirit or demon; devil; a cruelly malicious or wicked person | Fiend |
| To cut off or cut down with an axe | Hew |
| To provide with defensive structures or fortifications, as against military attack | Fortify |
| A long thin candle | Taper |
| Someone who takes power with a legal right | Usurper |
| To make sweeping, dramatic movements | Flourish |
| Hired Irish soldiers | Kerns |
| A British nobleman who is ranked above a viscount and below a marquis | Earl |
| A military manoeuvre in which a fortification is surrounded, subjected to attack, and cut off from supplies or reinforcements until its occupants surrender | Siege |
| Someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner | Harbinger |
| Severe criticism or disapproval | Censure |
| To feel or express worry, concern, or annoyance | Fret |
| A person who lacks the courage to face danger, pain, or difficulty; a person easily discouraged or intimidated by fear | Coward |
| To rid of anything impure or unwanted | Purge |
| A confused and uncontrolled crowd; disorderly mob | Rabble |
| A drug or medicine, especially a purgative or strong laxative | Physic |
| Something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble | Bane |
| A raised mark on the skin caused by a blow; welt | Weal |