Macbeth Vocab List 1 (Act I, Scenes i-iii)

Macbeth Vocabulary List 1

Due Tuesday, May 6th
• Flash Cards
• Context Quotes

Test Friday, May 9, 2014

From Context and Act I, Scenes i-iii

1. dearth





2. fastidious





3. plight (9)





4. disdain (9)





5. valiant (9)





6. valor (11)






7. furbished (11)





8. prophetic (19)






9. enkindle (23)





10. surmise (23)





11. rapt (25)





12. liege (25)


Shakespeare Terms
• sooth= truth
• anon= right away
• hurly-burly= a tumult or skirmish in a battle (from “hurl”)
• whence = where/ from
• heath= hill
• thy= your
• thou= you (subject “though shalt not kill”
• thee= you object (“with this ring I thee wed” )
• thane= a man who held land granted by the king (in Scotland) a man, often the chief of a clan, who held land from a Scottish king and ranked with an earl's son.