Macbeth Act III

Vocabulary

Cloister(n)

a place of religious seclusion; abbey or sanctuary

Dauntless(adj)

fearless

Grandam(n)

an ole woman or grandmother

Grapple(v)

a hand to hand struggle; to grip and hold

Homage(n)

anything done to show honor or respect

Incensed(v)

to make very angry

Indissoluble(adj)

incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken; lasting or permanent

Infirmity(n)

weakness, feebleness

Jocund(adj)

jovial, cheerful

Jovial(adj)

playful good humored

Levy(n)

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

Parricide(n)

a murder of a parent

Posterity(n)

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

Rancor(n)

malice, spiteful, deep seated ill will

Sundry(adj)

miscellaneous; of an indefinite small number

Trenched(adj)

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

Unlineal(adj)

not hereditary; no descendant line

Venom(n)

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

Verity(n)

a statement or belief acknowledged to be an established truth