Macbeth Act III Vocabulary Flashcards

Flashcards for Act III vocabulary in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Cloister

A place of religious seclusion; abbey or sanctuary (n)

Dauntless

Fearless (Adj)

Grandam

An old woman or grandmother (n)

Grapple

A hand-to-hand struggle; to grip and hold (v)

Homage

Anything done to show honor or respect (n)

Incensed

To make very angry (v)

Indissoluble

Incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken; lasting or permanent (adj)

Infirmity

Weakness, feebleness (n)

Jocund

Jovial, cheerful (adj)

Jovial

Playful, good-humored (adj)

Levy

The imposing or collecting of taxes or other payments; armies from abroad coming to collect what is owed to them. (n)

Parricide

Murder of a parent (n)

Posterity

The offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation; all future generations; descendants (n)

Rancor

Malice, spiteful, deep-seated ill will (n)

Sundry

Miscellaneous; of an indefinite small number (adj)

Trenched

Dug deep as a trench or trenches in (the ground); bastion (adj)

Unlineal

Not hereditary; no descendant line (adj)

Venom

A spiteful malicious feeling or state of mind extreme ill will; enmity (n)

Verity

A statement or belief acknowledged to be an established truth (n)