Collection 5: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act 5

As you read Act 5 of William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 5: Why Read Shakespeare?, Macbeth, Act 1, Macbeth, Act 2, Macbeth, Act 3, Macbeth, Act 4, Macbeth, Act 5, Holinshed's Chronicles, The Macbeth Murder Mystery
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  1. meet
    being precisely fitting and right
  2. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
  3. practice
    knowledge of how something is usually done
  4. abroad
    far away from home or one's usual surroundings
  5. annoyance
    something or someone that causes trouble or irritation
  6. mortified
    suffering from tissue death
  7. distemper
    any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
  8. pester
    annoy persistently
  9. purge
    make pure or free from sin or guilt
  10. taint
    place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
  11. epicure
    a person who takes great pleasure in fine food and drink
  12. loon
    a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
  13. sere
    having lost all moisture
  14. scour
    rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
  15. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
  16. arbitrate
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  17. ague
    chills and fever that are symptomatic of malaria
  18. treatise
    a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
  19. thereafter
    from that time on
  20. resolution
    the trait of being firm in purpose or belief
  21. fiend
    an evil supernatural being
  22. harness
    an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body
  23. stave
    one of the slats of wood forming sides of a barrel or bucket
  24. bruit
    tell or spread rumors
  25. render
    give up someone or something to another
  26. intrenchment
    an entrenched fortification
  27. crest
    in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet
  28. cow
    subdue or overcome by affecting with fear or awe
  29. palter
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  30. retreat
    a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
  31. flourish
    a short lively tune played on brass instruments
  32. usurper
    one who wrongfully seizes and holds the place of another
  33. salutation
    an acknowledgment or expression of good will
  34. henceforth
    from this time forth; from now on
  35. minister
    a person appointed to a high office in the government
Created on Thu Jul 17 13:53:12 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:23:19 EDT 2014)

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