Macbeth Vocab Test

Question 1

brightened; polished

Answer 1

furbished

Question 2

having more power to predict or foreshadow

Answer 2

prophetic

Question 3

conjecture; uncertain knowledge

Answer 3

surmise

Question 4

condemn sharply; scold

Answer 4

chastise

Question 5

supernatural

Answer 5

metaphysical

Question 6

supreme in power, rank, or authority

Answer 6

sovereign

Question 7

to make greater; enlarge

Answer 7

augment

Question 8

capable of being touched or felt

Answer 8

palpable

Question 9

sly

Answer 9

stealthy

Question 10

existing in great numbers

Answer 10

multitudinous

Question 11

tell falsehoods

Answer 11

equivocate

Question 12

declared sacred

Answer 12

anointed

Question 13

superiority

Answer 13

predominance

Question 14

suffering; a cause of suffering

Answer 14

affliction

Question 15

familiarize; inform

Answer 15

acquaint

Question 16

something done to make up for injury or loss

Answer 16

amends

Question 17

cheerful; having good humor

Answer 17

jovial

Question 18

mix together

Answer 18

mingle

Question 19

the future; those who are to come after

Answer 19

posterity

Question 20

having hair matted with blood

Answer 20

blood-bolstered

Question 21

entrails

Answer 21

chaudron

Question 22

throat

Answer 22

gulf

Question 23

foamy

Answer 23

yeasty

Question 24

swamp-dwelling

Answer 24

fenny

Question 25

be infected

Answer 25

taint

Question 26

perfect

Answer 26

pristine

Question 27

scour

Answer 27

stirr

Question 28

blot

Answer 28

raze

Question 29

unhealthy state

Answer 29

sickly weal

Question 30

a short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her thoughts and feelings

Answer 30

aside

Question 31

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines

Answer 31

blank verse

Question 32

two consecutive, rhymed lines of poetry that follow the same rhythmic pattern

Answer 32

couplet

Question 33

a character whose attitudes, beliefs, or behavior differ significantly from those of another character

Answer 33

foil

Question 34

poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme

Answer 34

free verse

Question 35

a metrical verse line have 5 main stresses, traditionally described as a line of five feet

Answer 35

iambic pentameter

Question 36

a stanza with eight iambic pentameter lines that rhymes abababcc

Answer 36

ottava rima

Question 37

play on multiple meanings of a word or two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Answer 37

pun

Question 38

a long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings

Answer 38

soliloquy

Question 39

the defect of character that brings about the protagonist’s downfall in a tragedy

Answer 39

tragic flaw