Macbeth Vocab
Across
- 2. a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation.
- 4. call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- 6. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
- 8. a saying that expresses a common observation; proverb
- 10. guess based on incomplete facts
- 11. dry and shriveled.
- 12. resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.
- 14. a pair of lines that rhyme
- 17. bravery
- 20. sign of future events
- 21. incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
- 23. sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious.
- 24. completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing.
- 26. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
- 27. do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
Down
- 1. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
- 3. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
- 5. too numerous to be counted
- 7. from what place
- 8. a remark made quietly so as to be heard by a select group of people and not by others who are nearby. In Shakespeare’s plays, sometimes a character makes an aside to the audience.
- 9. anything
- 13. lines spoken by one character on stage. These lines are not meant to be heard by anyone. Soliloquies function to communicate a character’s inner thoughts and usually communicate an internal conflict.
- 15. a place or position affording a good view of something.
- 16. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
- 18. a member of an aristocratic class and holds land
- 19. predicting future events as if by supernatural forces
- 22. capable of being perceived
- 25. speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly