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Macbeth Vocabulary
entire play
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English
11th Grade
02/18/2009

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wrought
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v. created, molded
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beggared
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adj. impoverished
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saucy
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adj. rude, disrespectful
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liege
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n. or adj. lord or superior
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incensed
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v. angered
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sundry
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adj. varied
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naught
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n. nothing or without
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beldam
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n. grandmother or old hideous woman
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kites
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n. large winged bird that has a forked tail and soars on updrafts of the air.
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jocund
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adj. cheerful
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cribbed
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v. trapped
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treachery
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n. conspiracy
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mirth
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n. happiness
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nonpareil
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n. the epitome of something (usually heroism or goodness)
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trenched
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v. deep, as in a wound
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mischance
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n. chance, luck
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maws
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jaw n. the mouth or engorging mouth of an animal (or death symbolically)
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weal
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n. wealth or common good
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marrow
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n. the interior of a bone. The deepest part of something
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rue
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n. or v. regret or to regret
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hurly-burly
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n. commotion, tumult
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heath
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n. an uninhabited windswept hill or landscape
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broil
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n. the trouble or conflict
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Fortune (the pagan goddess)
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n. a determiner of the fate of men
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minion
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n. follower
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unseamed
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v. cut open
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direful
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adj. horrible, terrible
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Golgotha
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N. "skull place" or the place of execution in Jerusalem
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Bellona
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n. the Roman goddess of War
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rapt
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adj. distracted, completely intrigued
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treason
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n. the act of betrayal of a kind or country
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recompense
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n. to makes amends to someone whom you have caused loss or harm.
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harbinger
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n. forerunner (especially on a bad omen)
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missives
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n. letters with messages
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compunctious
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adj. feeling guilt after doing something bad
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gall
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n. bile
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martlet
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n. a bird born without feet; considered a mythical bird
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trammel
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n. a restriction to someone's freedom; trap
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surcease
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n. conclusion or ending
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mettle
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n. a person’s ability to cope well with difficulties or face a demanding situation in a positive way
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