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Words from "Macbeth" 39 words

September 22, 2009 By Ben Zimmer (New York, NY) Vocabulary.com Contributor Vocabulary.com Moderator
Notable words from Shakespeare's "Macbeth".

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  1. accurse
    curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
  2. alarum
    an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
  3. apparition
    a ghostly appearing figure
  4. assailable
    not defended or capable of being defended
  5. avouch
    admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
  6. aweary
    physically and mentally fatigued
  7. beldam
    a woman of advanced age
  8. benison
    a spoken blessing
  9. blaspheme
    speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
  10. brinded
    having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
  11. cauldron
    a very large pot that is used for boiling
  12. chough
    a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
  13. coign
    the keystone of an arch
  14. crack of doom
    (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  15. cyme
    more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
  16. drowse
    sleep lightly or for a short period of time
  17. enkindle
    cause to start burning
  18. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
  19. equivocator
    a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer
  20. feverous
    having or affected by a fever
  21. gentlewoman
    a woman of refinement
  22. hautboy
    a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
  23. hell-kite
    someone who is a very fierce fighter
  24. incarnadine
    make flesh-colored
  25. knell
    the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
  26. lechery
    unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
  27. overbold
    improperly forward or bold
  28. prattler
    someone who speaks in a childish way
  29. sirrah
    formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger
  30. slaughterous
    accompanied by bloodshed
  31. slumbery
    inclined to or marked by drowsiness
  32. soldiership
    skills that are required for the life of soldier
  33. swinish
    resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  34. thane
    a feudal lord or baron
  35. treasonous
    having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
  36. ulcerous
    having an ulcer or canker
  37. unsanctified
    not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
  38. weird sister
    (Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae
  39. withal
    together with this