Macbeth

Rachel L. (United States of America)
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  1. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
  2. corporal
    affecting the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
  3. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  4. interim
    the time between one event, process, or period and another
  5. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  6. surcease
    a stopping
  7. purveyor
    someone who supplies provisions, especially food
  8. harbinger
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  9. mettle
    the courage to carry on
  10. gout
    a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
  11. knell
    the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
  12. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  13. infirm
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  14. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  15. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  16. dire
    fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  17. scruples
    motivation deriving from ethical or moral principles
  18. carousing
    used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  19. parricide
    the murder of your own father or mother
  20. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
  21. rancor
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  22. liege
    a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
  23. augur
    predict from an omen
  24. sleight
    adroitness in using the hands
  25. confound
    be confusing or perplexing to
  26. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  27. redress
    make reparations or amends for
  28. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  29. diminutive
    very small
  30. appease
    make peace with
  31. perchance
    through chance
  32. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  33. distemper
    any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
  34. upbraid
    express criticism towards
  35. mortify
    cause to feel shame
  36. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  37. purgative
    strongly laxative
  38. bane
    something causing misery or death
  39. ague
    chills and fever that are symptomatic of malaria
  40. treatise
    a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
  41. blanch
    turn pale, as if in fear
Created on Tue Aug 09 07:50:01 EDT 2011

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