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Macbeth 65 words

September 5, 2009 By Timot Mc (JP, Boston, MA)

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  1. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
  2. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
  3. minion
    a servile or fawning dependant
  4. lavish
    very generous
  5. corporal
    affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
  6. prophetic
    foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
  7. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  8. fantastical
    existing in fancy only
  9. harbinger
    something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
  10. rapt
    feeling great rapture or delight
  11. missive
    a written message addressed to a person or organization
  12. metaphysical
    pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics
  13. remorse
    a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
  14. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  15. sovereign
    a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
  16. purveyor
    someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
  17. trammel
    a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
  18. husbandry
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  19. augment
    enlarge or increase
  20. infirm
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  21. equivocator
    a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer
  22. carousing
    used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  23. clamor
    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
  24. sacrilegious
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  25. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  26. scruples
    motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  27. malice
    feeling a need to see others suffer
  28. consort
    keep company with; hang out with
  29. warrant
    formal and explicit approval
  30. suborn
    incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
  31. indissoluble
    (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved
  32. bestow
    give as a gift
  33. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  34. rebuke
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  35. bounteous
    given or giving freely
  36. eminence
    high status importance owing to marked superiority
  37. cloistered
    providing privacy or seclusion
  38. humane
    marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
  39. malevolence
    wishing evil to others
  40. homage
    respectful deference
  41. exasperate
    make furious
  42. conjure
    summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  43. apparition
    a ghostly appearing figure
  44. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  45. diminutive
    a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
  46. judicious
    marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
  47. homely
    lacking in physical beauty or proportion
  48. unsanctified
    not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
  49. treachery
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  50. transpose
    change the order or arrangement of
  51. cistern
    a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
  52. intemperance
    excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence
  53. blaspheme
    speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
  54. ulcerous
    having an ulcer or canker
  55. hither
    to this place (especially toward the speaker)
  56. doff
    remove
  57. perturbation
    the act of causing disorder
  58. distemper
    any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
  59. epicure
    a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
  60. antidote
    a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
  61. oblivious
    (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of
  62. purgative
    strongly laxative
  63. stave
    one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  64. salutation
    (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
  65. tyranny
    a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)