Macbeth Words part 2

Question 1

she

Answer 1

the moon

Question 2

husbandry

Answer 2

thriftiness

Question 3

A heavy summons … sleep

Answer 3

despite being weighed down with a heavy tiredness, I cannot sleep

Question 4

merciful … repose

Answer 4

I call upon the angels of heaven to banish the dark thoughts I have increasingly had

Question 5

largess to your offices

Answer 5

generous gifts to the servants who have waited on you

Question 6

withal

Answer 6

as well, too

Question 7

shut up

Answer 7

gone to bed

Question 8

Being unprepared … wrought

Answer 8

because Duncan’s visit was unexpected, we were unable to entertain him as fully as we would have wished

Question 9

So I lose none … counselled

Answer 9

as long as I remain loyal to the king, I will be able to talk about ‘honour’ with you

Question 10

franchised

Answer 10

free from obligation

Question 11

fatal vision

Answer 11

deadly sight

Question 12

sensible / To feeling

Answer 12

able to be touched

Question 13

heat-oppressed

Answer 13

feverished

Question 14

yet

Answer 14

still

Question 15

palpable

Answer 15

real, physical, touchable

Question 16

dudgeon

Answer 16

handle

Question 17

gouts

Answer 17

large drops

Question 18

one hal-world

Answer 18

night-time world

Question 19

Hecate

Answer 19

goddess of witchcraft

Question 20

off’rings

Answer 20

gifts, sacrifices

Question 21

Alarumed

Answer 21

alerted, awoken

Question 22

sentinel

Answer 22

guard

Question 23

Tarquin

Answer 23

a Roman prince who raped Lucrece

Question 24

prate

Answer 24

talk

Question 25

knell

Answer 25

funeral bell

Question 26

quenched

Answer 26

silenced, drugged

Question 27

fatal bellman

Answer 27

watchman who rang a bell the night before a prisoner was executed

Question 28

stern’st good-night

Answer 28

death, the last goodnight of all

Question 29

surfeited

Answer 29

filled up, overindulged

Question 30

grooms

Answer 30

Duncan’s bodyguards

Question 31

mock their charge

Answer 31

abandon their duties

Question 32

possets

Answer 32

hot drinks of milk with wine, sugar and spices

Question 33

Alack … done

Answer 33

I am sure the guards have woken up and we have failed

Question 34

Confounds us

Answer 34

overthrows, ruins us

Question 35

owl, crickets

Answer 35

(creatures often associated with death)

Question 36

sorry

Answer 36

miserable, painful

Question 37

addressed them

Answer 37

prepared themselves

Question 38

hangman’s hands

Answer 38

blood-covered hands

Question 39

Methought

Answer 39

I thought

Question 40

ravelled sleeve

Answer 40

frayed sleeve or tangled silk

Question 41

death of each day’s life

Answer 41

sleep is to the day what death is to life

Question 42

sore labour’s bath

Answer 42

hard work’s cure

Question 43

Balm

Answer 43

healing medicine

Question 44

second course

Answer 44

main part of a meal

Question 45

unbend

Answer 45

relax, weaken

Question 46

filthy witness

Answer 46

evidence

Question 47

Infirm

Answer 47

hesitating, wavering

Question 48

‘tis the eye … devil

Answer 48

it is childish to fear something that looks horrible but cannot harm you

Question 49

gild

Answer 49

paint

Question 50

withal

Answer 50

with it

Question 51

appals

Answer 51

terrifies

Question 52

Neptune

Answer 52

god of the sea

Question 53

multitudinous seas

Answer 53

the many oceans of the earth

Question 54

incarnadine

Answer 54

redden

Question 55

Making the green one red

Answer 55

staining the green sea red with blood

Question 56

I shame

Answer 56

I would be ashamed

Question 57

You constancy … unattended

Answer 57

you have lost your nerve

Question 58

lest occasion call us

Answer 58

in case the discovery of the murder causes us to be sent for

Question 59

to be watchers

Answer 59

to be awake

Question 60

To know my deed … self

Answer 60

if I accept my crime, I have to accept my new identity as a murderer