MACBETH ~ ACT II- VOCABULARY

1.     Ague: fever and chills                        
2.     Appalls: disgusts (V)                                                                       
3.     Apparition: a ghostly figure                                      
4.     Augment: to make greater, increase (V)                           
5.     Avaunt:  begone                                                                     
6.     Bodements: prophecies, omen, prediction                           
7.     Carousing: 
8.     Cauldron: a large kettle pot                                       
9.     Charnel House: a building into which bones were thrown when a grave was dug up to make room for a new corpse
10.  Colors: flags carried by a soldier                                
11.   Coz: cousin; sometimes a courtesy title only                         
12.  Equivocate: liar, speaking in a manner as to avoid giving a definite answer or position, to speak vaguely (V).
13.  Forced: to force; reinforced             
14.  Impress: to mark by or as if by pressure or stamping; horrify, shock
15.  Incarnadine: a bright crimson or pinkish-red color (V)             
16.  Kites: birds of prey, often hawks                                           
17.  Knell: toll, ring, peal, sound (N)    
18.  Lave: to bathe                        
19.  Maws: bellies; stomachs                                
20.  Minion: superiority in effectiveness, degree, quality (N)                           
21.  Multitudinous: consisting of many elements or parts (Adj)                        
22.  Oracle: may be the person through whom a deity speaks or may be information about the future           
23.  Palpable: able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind (Adj)
24.  Predecessor: a person who comes before another in time in a position of office (N)
25.  Predominance: having superior strength, influence, or authority (N)             
26.  Sacrilegious: violating something sacred (Adj)
27.  School: to teach to discipline                                                
28.  Scruples: doubts (N)
29.  Siege: a military blockade of a town or fort in order to force its surrender                                                 
30.  Sooth: truth                            
31.  Sovereignty: royal authority or power (N)            
32.  Speculation: wonder, theorize, the power of sight                                                              
33.  Suborned: to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing; bribe, coerce (V)
34.   Surfeit: to overindulge (V)
35.   Undivulged: not revealed (Adj)