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Macbeth Vocabulary
Terms used in Macbeth that were incorporated into a sentence (5+)
Question | Answer |
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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 |