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Macbeth List 1

 

1.       Plight – predicament

2.       Brandish – wave in the air

3.       Rapt – absorbed in thought

4.       Corporal – bodily; physical

5.       Surmise – imagine; guess

6.       Peerless – unequalled

7.       Chastise – punish; fuss at

8.       Impede – prevent; stop

9.       Chalice – cup

10.       Recompense – reimbursement; paying back

11.    Augment – increase in size

12.    Repose – rest; lie down

13.    Prate – talk on and on

14.    Palpable – touchable

15.    Surfeit – excessive amount

16.    Temperate – calm; even-tempered

17. Unruly – wild; untamed

 

 

 

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