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

from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" -- Act II Scene 1
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  1. handle
    touch, lift, or hold
    Is this a dagger which I see before me,
    The handle toward my hand?
  2. clutch
    take hold of; grab
    Come, let me clutch thee.
  3. fatal
    bringing death
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  4. vision
    a vivid mental image
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To feeling as to sight?
  5. creation
    an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation...
  6. oppressed
    burdened psychologically or mentally
    Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
  7. palpable
    capable of being perceived
    I see thee yet, in form as palpable
    As this which now I draw.
  8. instrument
    a device that requires skill for proper use
    Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
    And such an instrument I was to use.
  9. wicked
    morally bad in principle or practice
    Now o'er the one halfworld
    Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
    The curtain'd sleep;
  10. abuse
    treat badly
    Now o'er the one halfworld
    Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
    The curtain'd sleep;
  11. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
    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.
  12. stride
    a step in walking or running
    With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
    Moves like a ghost.
  13. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
    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.
  14. threat
    declaration of an intention to inflict harm on another
    Whiles I threat, he lives:
  15. deed
    something that people do or cause to happen
    Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
Created on Thu Feb 02 13:15:37 EST 2012 (updated Thu Feb 02 13:45:41 EST 2012)

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