Macbeth
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 avarice | (noun) excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain avaricious |
| beguile | (verb) to lead by deception; to deceive by flattery |
| credulous | (adj) on uncerstain evidence; gullible; ready to believe |
| dauntless | (adj) fearless |
| equivocate | (verb) to avoid committing oneself in what one says; to use language to deceive; to avoid giving a definite answer |
| flout | (verb) to treat with contemptuous disregard through action, scorn |
| harbinger | (noun) one that initiates a major change; one that foreshadows what is to come |
| incarnadine | (adj) having the color of flesh |
| intemperance | (noun) lack of moderation in any desire/passion; lack of self-control |
| interim | (noun) an intervening time |
| knell | (verb & noun) to sound in an ominous effect; sound of a bell for death, funeral, disaster; sign of the end or failure |
| pernicious | (adj) highly destructive; deadly |
| predominance | (noun) having superiority in power over others; prevailing; prominent |
| recompense | (verb & noun) to give something by compensation; to pay for; to return in kind---an equivalent for something else |
| solicit | (verb) to approach with a plea/request |
| sovereign | (noun) a monarch, a supreme ruler; a group of people having supreme authority or rank |
| sundry | (adj) various or diverse; miscellaneous |
| treason | (noun) the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm/kill its sovereign; any act of betrayal |
| trifle | (noun & verb) a matter of circumstance of little importance---to act/talk in a non-serious and idle way |
| valor | (noun) boldness or determination in facing great danger; bravery |
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