“Macbeth” Vocabulary
1. feverous (adj) – excited, restless, focused on something
 M: disco fever (excited)
2. equivocate (v) – to speak vaguely or ambiguously, especially in order to mislead;
being deliberately ambiguous or unclear
 M: vocal - speaking
3. tyrant (n) – an absolute ruler who exercises power cruelly and unjustly
 M: goes on a rant;
4. unsanctified (adj) – unholy; impure; defiled; unclean
 M: unsaintly; not holy or saintly
5. knell (n) – slow, deep sound of a bell; knell (v) – deeply ring
 M: knell – bell – yell – onomatopoeia (sounds like what it means)
6. vantage (n) – a place or situation affording advantage
 M: advantage
7. harbinger (n) – person/thing that goes ahead and makes something known; shows
 M: har-bringer (someone who brings news ahead)
8. malicious (adj) – feel the need to hurt others or to watch them suffer
 M: mal = bad; (like in malice, malady)
9. disdain (n) – to look at with contempt or intense dislike
 M: look at something – as if it is stained
10. chastise (v) – to discipline or scold, sometimes by corporeal (hitting) punishment
 M: criticize
11. beguile (v) – to trick or confuse; to charm or enchant
 M: She beguiled the men with her feminine wiles (charms); befriend with
deception
12. masculinity (n) – manly qualities (courage, strength, hairy, tough
 M: masculine
13. corporal (adj) – of, or relating to, the body
 M: corpse-ish; pork roll (body of pig)
14. laudable (adj) – praiseworthy; deserving praise or accommodation
 M: applaud; applaud-able
15. conjure (v) – to summon into action or existence (i.e., conjure up a storm)
 M: conjurer – magician; create
16. impediment (n) – obstacle; something that is in the way
 M: speech impediment (gets in the way of speech); impede – get in the way;
slow down
17. abhor (v) – regard with disgust or hatred; hate
 M: hate; anger
18. prophecy (n) – prediction (verb: prophesize)
 M: prediction; what a prophet says
19. vulnerable (adj) – susceptible to; exposed to; weak to
 M: opposite of invulnerable
20. sovereign (n) – ruler, head of state; (adj) – highest of rulers
 M: rules over reign