Macbeth Vocabulary
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jwyck44 on December 2, 2010
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macbeth vocab, english iii honors vocabulary
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 corporal | of the body; bodily |
| harbinger | one that indicates what is to come: forerunner |
| impede | to obstruct or delay the progress of: hinders |
| dire | requiring urgent remedial action or treatment |
| compunction | a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt |
| mettle | inherent quality of character and temperament |
| husbandry | the cultivation of crops and breeding and raising of livestock; agriculture |
| tempest | a violent windstorm often accompanied by rain, snow, or hail: uproar; furious commotion |
| equivocate | to avoid making an explicit statement |
| sacrilegious | showing irreverence and contempt for something sacred |
| amiss | out of place or proper order |
| indissoluble | impossible to break or undo; binding |
| parricide | one who murders someone to whom he or she owes reverence |
| jovial | marked by hearty conviviality or joyous humor |
| mirth | gaiety and gladness; esp. when expressed by laughter |
| malevolence | the quality or sate of wishing evil or harm on others; malice; spitefulness |
| blasphemous | strongly abusively disrespectful of God or sacred things |
| resolute | having or showing a fixed, firm purpose; determined; resolved; unwavering |
| laudable | deserving praise |
| appease | to make someone calmer or less hostile by agreeing to their demands |
| avarice | extreme greed for wealth or material things |
| niggardly | not generous; stingy |
| raze | completely destroying a building, town, etc. |
| pristine | in its original condition; unspoiled; clean, fresh as if new |
| bane | a cause of great distress or annoyance |
| augment | to increase the amount, size, or value of |
| missive | a formal letter; a written communication |
| usurper | to take over a persons position or power illegally or by force |
| nihilism | the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless |
| monomania | an obsessive preoccupation with one thing |
| solipsism | the view that the self is all that can be known to exist; the quality of being selfish |
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