Heath | 2nd witch- “Upon the heath”stretch of land |
Brandished | Captain-“Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution”waving or flourishing |
Valor | Captain-“Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage..”courageous |
Minion | Captain- “Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage..”servent/worker |
Direful | Captain- “Shipwracking storms and direful thunders breaks..”dreadful, awful, terable |
corporal | Macbeth-“Into the air, and what seemed corporal melted…”vilical body |
cleave | Banquo-” Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold…”cut, to adhear closely to |
wrought | Macbeth-” My dull brain was wrought With things forgotten”overworked, beaten |
recompense | Duncan-“That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee”outcome, compensation for loss, getting back |
Harbinger | Macbeth-“I’ll be myself the harbinger and make joyful…”something that runs before you to help |
Chastice | Lady Macbeth-“And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round…”punish |
impede | Lady Macbeth-“And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round…”to interupt, to stop, to hold back |
compuntious | Lady Macbeth-“That no compuntious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose…”regretful |
Beguile | Lady Macbeth-” To beguile the time , Look like the time.”pass time, to trick |
Dispatch | Lady Macbeth-“This night’s great business into my great dispatch…”management (with a secondary sense of putting to death) |
procreant | Banquo-“Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.”cradle where he breeds |
trammel | Macbeth-“Could trammel up the consequence and catch With his surcease…”to interupt, to stop, to hold back |
adage | “Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?”proverb or saying |
undaunted | Macbeth-“For thy undaunted mettle should compose…”unafraid |
mettle | Macbeth-“For thy undaunted mettle should compose…”person able to cope, courageous |
equivocation | ambiguous=taking in different ways, avoiding the truth |
Macbeth vocab act 1
August 11, 2019