Macbeth Vocab Flashcards

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Auspicious

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Suggesting that future success is likely

Adjective

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Sententious

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Expressing strong opinions about what people should and should not do.
Adjective

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Assiduous

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Marked by careful, persistent attention.

Adjective

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Harbinger

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Any thing/person that foreshadows a future event.

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Piquant

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Agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive

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Palpable

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Capable of being touched

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Surfeit

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Overindulgence in eating or drinking

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Incarnadine

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Crimson

Adjective

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Prate

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To babble

Verb

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Suborn

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To unlawfully and secretly induce someone to commit a crime

Verb

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Assail

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To attack violently

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Ontological

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Pertaining to the nature of existence

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Derelict

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A person abandoned by society

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Trenchant

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Caustic or incisive

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Augur

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Prophet (Roman)

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