Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy - Vocabulary List : Vocabulary.com

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handle

the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?

clutch

take hold of; grab

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Come, let me clutch thee.

fatal

bringing death

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

vision

a vivid mental image

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?

creation

an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

A dagger of the mind, a false creation...

oppressed

burdened psychologically or mentally

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

palpable

capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

instrument

a device that requires skill for proper use

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.

wicked

morally bad in principle or practice

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep;

abuse

treat badly

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep;

sentinel

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.

stride

a step in walking or running

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost.

prate

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it.

threat

declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Whiles I threat, he lives:

deed

something that people do or cause to happen

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy 15 words

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