MACBETH ~ ACT III- VOCABULARY

Cloister

A place of religious seclusion; abbey or sanctuary.

Dauntless

Fearless.

Grandam

An old woman or grandmother.

Grapple

A hand-to-hand struggle; to grip and hold.

Homage

Anything done to show honor or respect.

Incensed

To make very angry.

Indissoluble

Incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken; lasting or permanent.

Infirmity

Weakness, feebleness.

Jocund

Jovial, cheerful.

Jovial

Playful good-humored.

Levy

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

Parricide

Murder of a parent.

Posterity

The offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation; all future generations; descendants.

Rancor

Malice, spiteful, deep-seated ill will.

Sundry

Miscellaneous; of an indefinite small number.

Trenched

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

Unlineal

Not hereditary; no descendant line.

Venom

A spiteful malicious feeling or state of mind; extreme ill will; enmity.

Verity

A statement or belief acknowledged to be an established truth.