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Macbeth, Act 1: 

Word: tempest-tossed

Sentence from the text: “Through his bark cannot be lost,/Yet it shall be tempest-tossed” (Shakespeare 1.3.26).

Definition: Thrown into a raging storm.

Why I chose it: I chose this word because it stood out due to its hyphenated structure, not many words are like this in Shakespeare's Macbeth so it made my eyes draw to it.

My sentence: When I walked into my house, my sisters were screaming at eachother and I was tempest-tossed as soon as I stepped foot into the living room.

Macbeth, Act 2:

Word: benison

Sentence from the text: “God’s benison go with you and with those/That would make good of bad and friends of foes” (Shakespeare 2.4.43).

Definition: A wish of well-being

Why I chose it: I chose this word because it sounds like a TV show character's name from Law and Order (Olivia Benson) so it made me take another look at it and I was curious.

My sentence: My mom gave me a chocolate chip cookie, it was a benison for my test today.

Macbeth, Act 3:

Word: Augurs

Sentence from the text: “Augurs and understood relations have/By magot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth/ The secret’st man of blood” (Shakespeare 3.4.131/132/133).

Definition: The aftermath of an event foreshadows a good or bad outcome.

Why I chose it: I have never heard this word before, it sounded unique and cool. It also sounded like Autumn which made me curious, did it have something to do with fall?

My sentence: The incredible storm tonight will cause some augur.

Macbeth, Act 4:

Word: Lust

Sentence from the text: “Your wives, your daughters,/Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up/The cistern of my lust, and my desire/All continent impedimentrs would O’erbear/That did oppose my will” (Shakespeare 4.3.64).

Defintion: A sexual desire that is intense, one that is normally incontrolable.

Why I chose it: I chose this word because I have heard it many times before, most likely in this text already, and I am not sure what it means. I felt like it was important to know and also I was interested in the definition.

My sentence: He was sent to his girlfriend's house on a drive for lust.

Macbeth, Act 5:

Word: perilous

Sentence from the test: “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,/Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,/Raze out the written troubles of the brain/And with some sweet oblivious antidote/Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weighs upon the heart” (5.3.42/43/44/45/46/47)?

Definition: full of danger and risky

Why I chose it: I chose this word because it sounds like many other words I know, for example non-pareil candy, it made me curious to see if this had a similar meaning to any of those words.

My sentence: Going sky diving at 80 years old is very perilous.