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MACBETH ~ ACT III- VOCABULARY

1.  Cloister: a place of religious seclusion; abbey or sanctuary   (n)                                                 
2.  Dauntless: fearless       (adj)                                 
3.  Grandam: an ole woman or grandmother    (n)                          
4.  Grapple: a hand-to-hand struggle; to grip and hold  (v)                                               
5.  Homage: anything done to show honor or respect   (n)                      
6.  Incensed: to make very angry  (v)                                               
7.  Indissoluble: incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken; lasting or permanent     (adj)                           
8.  Infirmity: weakness, feebleness     (n)                                        
9.  Jocund: jovial, cheerful       (adj)                                                   
10.  Jovial: playful good-humored   (adj)                                                       
11.  Levy: the imposing or collecting of taxes or other payments; foreign levy (armies from abroad coming to collect what is owed to them).    (n)                                          
12.  Parricide: murder of a parent   (n)                                           
13.  Posterity: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation; all future generations; descendants (n)       
14.  Rancor: malice, spiteful, deep-seated ill will        (n)                                   
15.  Sundry: miscellaneous; of an indefinite small number  (adj)                                          
16.  Trenched: dug deep as a trench or trenches in (the ground); bastion (adj)
17.  Unlineal: not hereditary; no descendant line    (adj)                                                       
18.  Venom: a spiteful malicious feeling or state of mind extreme ill will; enmity   (n)
19. Verity: a statement or belief acknowledged to be an established truth     (n)