Macbeth Act 2 Vocab

Ague

fever and chills 

Appalls

verb

Apparition

a ghostly figure 

Augment

to make greater, increase  (II.i.36-39)  (V)

 Avaunt

begone 

Bodements

 prophecies, omen, prediction

 Carousing

merry making, binge drinking

 Cauldron

a large kettle pot

  Charnel House

a building into which bones were thrown when a grave was dug up to make room for a new corpse

Colors

flags carried by a soldier

Coz

cousin; sometimes a courtesy title only

 Equivocate

liar, speaking in a manner as to avoid giving a definite answer or position, to speak vaguely (II.iii.37-41) (V)

  Forced

to force; reinforced  

Impress

to mark by or as if by pressure or stamping; horrify, shock

 Incarnadine

a bright crimson or pinkish-red color (II.ii.74-81)  (V)   

 Kites

birds of prey, often hawks

 Knell

toll, ring, peal, sound   (I.i.75-77)   (N)

Lave

to bathe

Maws

bellies; stomachs

 Minion

superiority in effectiveness, degree, quality (II.iv.17-22) (N)  

Multitudinous

consisting of many elements or parts (II.ii.74-81)  (Adj)

Oracle

may be the person through whom a deity speaks or may be information about the future

Palpable

able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind (II.i.48-53) (Adj)

Predecessor

a person who comes before another in time in a position of office (II.iv.46-48) (N)

 Predominance

having superior strength, influence, or authority  (III.iv.) (N)

Sacrilegious

violating something sacred (II.iii.76-79) (Adj)

School

to teach to discipline

Scruples

doubts (II.iii.147-154) (N)

Siege

a military blockade of a town or fort in order to force its surrender

Sooth

truth

Sovereignty

 royal authority or power (II.iv.39-41) (N)

 Speculation

 wonder, theorize, the power of sight

 Suborned

to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing; bribe, coerce (II.iv.35-38) (V)

 Surfeit

to overindulge (II.ii.5-11) (V)

Undivulged

not revealed (II.iii.147-154) (Adj)