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Macbeth Vocab Flashcards

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Adder

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A small venomous Eurasian snake

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Augment

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Make something greater by adding to it

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Avaunt

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Go away

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Barefaced

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Shameless, undisguised

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Brandish

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Wave or Flourish, especially weapon, as a threat or anger or excitement

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Clamorous

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Making a loud and confused noise

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Dauntless

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Showing fearlessness and determination

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Dire

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Extremely serious or urgent

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Entreat

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Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something

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Equivocate

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Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself

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Harbinger

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A person or thing that announces or singles the approach of another

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Impediment

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Hey hindrance or obstruction in doing something

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Jocund

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Cheerful and lighthearted

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Knell

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The sound of a bell, especially when wrong solemnly for a death or funeral

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Laudable

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Deserving praise and commendation

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Mar

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Impair the appearance of, disfigure

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Oracle

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One acting as a medium through whom advise or prophecy was sought from The gods in classical antiquity

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Palpable

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So intense as to seem almost tangible

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Parricide

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The killing of a parent or other near relative

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Peerless

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Unequaled or unrivaled

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Perturbation

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Anxiety, mental uneasiness

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Prodigal

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Spending money or resources freely and recklessly

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Sundry

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A various kinds, several

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Swelter

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Be uncomfortably hot

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Tarry

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Of, like, or covered with tar

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Unbraid

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Find fault with someone, scold

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Verities

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A true principal or believe, especially one of fundamental importance

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