Macbeth L Flashcards
hurly burly
noun
busy, boisterous activity.
bustle,hustle,chaos
thane
noun
a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
lord, citizen, nobleman,
valor
noun
great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle.
bravery,courage,fearlessness
aught
pronoun
anything at all.
anything at all.
minion
noun
a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.
servant,follower,lackey
prophetic
adjective
accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future
prescient,predictive,prophetical
surmise
verb
suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.
guess,conjecture,suspect
harbinger
noun
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
signal,omen,augury
adage
noun
a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
saying,maxim,motto
whence
adverb
from what place or source.
what place, thence, thither.
Bellona
noun
the Roman goddess of war.
couplet
noun
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
poem, verse, blank-verse