MACBETH ~ ACT II- VOCABULARY

Ague

fever and chills

Appalls

disgusts

Apparition

a ghostly figure

Augment

increase

Avaunt

begone

Bodements

prophecies, omen, prediction

Carousing

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

speaking vaguely to lie

Forced

to force; reinforced

Impress

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

Incarnadine

to make a pinkish-red color

Kites

birds of prey, often hawks

Knell

a ring or sound

Lave

to bathe

Maws

stomachs

Minion

superiority in effectiveness, quality

Multitudinous

consisting of many elements or parts

Oracle

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

Palpable

able to be perceived by a sense or the mind

Predecessor

a person who comes before another in time in a position of office

Predominance

having superior strength, influence, or authority

Sacrilegious

violation of something sacred

School

to teach to discipline

Scruples

doubts

Siege

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

Sooth

truth

Sovereignty

royal authority or power

Speculation

wonder, theorize, the power of sight

Suborned

to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing; bribe, coerce

Surfeit

to overindulge

Undivulged

not revealed