| Minion | (n) in the play: darling or favorite; modern use: slave or servant |
| Beguile | (v) to deceive |
| Husbandry | (n) economy (not related to financial structure); thriftiness |
| Incarnadine | (v) to redden |
| Scotched | (v) cut; gashed |
| Malicious | (adj) intending to harm; vicious |
| Exeunt | (v) theater term: to exit (plural) |
| Soliloquy | (n) theater term: the act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers |
| Paradox | (n) a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |
| Aside | (n) theater term: words spoken by an actor to the people watching a play, that the other characters in the play do not hear |
| Hurlyburly | (n) disorder and noise; commotion; tumult |
| Commendation | (n) praise, approval; recommendation |
| Adage | (n) a well-known proverb |
| Vizards | (n) masks |
| Equivocate | (v) to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| Dauntless | (adj) not frightened or discouraged |
| Malevolence | (n) the wish that evil may happen to others; ill will; spitefulness |
| Prattle | (v) to talk or tell freely and carelessly, as some children do |
| Usurp | (v) to seize and hold power, position, or authority by force or without right |
| Apparition | (n) a supernatural sight or thing; the appearance of something strange, remarkable or unexpected |
| Knell | (n) the sound of a bell rung slowly after death or at a funeral; a warning sign of death or failure |
| Stanchless | (adj) insatiable; unquenchable |
| Homage | (n) respect; reverence |
| Jocund | (adj) feeling, expressing, or communicating mirth or cheer |
| Plight | (n) a difficult or unfortunate situation; predicament |
| Furbish | (v) to brighten by rubbing or scouring; to restore to good condition and make usable again |
| Chiasmus | (n) a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses |
| Epicures | (n) lovers of luxury |
| Interenchant | (adj) invulnerable, not able to be cut |
| Wrack | (n) destruction |
| Ravined | (adj) ravenous |
| Chaundron | (n) entrails (inner organs when removed) |
| Harped | (v) in the play: guessed; modern use: nagged or fixated on |
| Bellona | (n) Roman goddess of war |
| Abjure | (v) to swear to give up; to renounce; to retract formally or solemnly; to refrain from; to avoid |
| Nonpareil | (n) one without equal |
| Covet | (v) to desire eagerly (something that belongs to another) |
| Benison | (n) a blessing |
| Temperance | (n) moderation in action, speech, habits, etc. |
| Bruited | (v) announced by a great noise |
C1 English Macbeth Vocab
December 17, 2019