Friday, January 23, 2015

Macbeth Vocab

1) Mirth - noun - amusement

2) Liege - noun - a feudal lord entitled to allegiance or service

3) Parricide - noun - act of killing one's father

4) Verity - noun - state of being true

5) Avarice - noun - insatiable greed for riches

6) Avaunt - adverb - go away

7) Posterity - noun - succeeding or future generations collectively

8) Homage - noun - respect or reverence paid or rendered

9) Cloistered - adj - kept away from the outside world

10) Equivocator - verb - use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth

11) Eminence - noun -  fame or recognized superiority

12) Avouch - verb - state as a fact

13) Thralls - noun - the state of being in someone's power

14) Malevolence - noun - the state or condition of being malevolent

The mirth of the king was mainly brought on by the public executions that took place every other day.
"My liege," Bob said to Joe, "the pirates are at the harbor and they threw their grappling hooks over the wall!"
The prince's parricide confused everyone in the city allowing him and the guards who remained loyal to him to easily take control of the kingdom.
Joe questioned the verity of the "fact" that the Earth is 2000 years old and the Jurassic Period never existed.
The dragon's avarice led him to conquer all of the kingdoms looking for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Joe was ordered to avaunt by Bob because he spilled his drink on the command center, rendering the space ship useless.

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