The play is full of Elizabethan language, with many archaic words for weapons, social status and the supernatural. The Macbeth Vocabulary Quiz will help you learn the meanings of words such as thane, surcease, and equivocation. Brush up on your language skills before the first question is asked.
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Macbeth Vocabulary Quiz
- What does “thane” mean in Macbeth
- What does “valor” mean when used to describe Macbeth
- What does “sovereign” mean when Lady Macbeth speaks of the crown
- What does “mettle” mean when Lady Macbeth says Macbeth has it too mild
- What does “chastise” mean in Lady Macbeth’s speech
- What does “compunctious” mean in “compunctious visitings of nature”
- What does “surmise” mean in “my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical”
- What does “augury” mean in the context of prophecy
- What does “imperial” mean in reference to Duncan
- What does “harbinger” mean in “the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance”
- What does “multitudinous” mean in “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean”
- What does “equivocate” mean as used in the Porter’s scene
- What does “sacrilegious” mean in Macduff’s reaction to Duncan’s murder
- What does “benison” mean when the Old Man speaks
- What does “rebellious” mean when describing the Thane of Cawdor
- What does “posterity” mean in Macbeth’s fear of Banquo’s heirs
- What does “entreat” mean when Macbeth asks the witches to speak
- What does “dauntless” mean in Macbeth’s praise of Banquo
- What does “bounteous” mean in Malcolm’s description of Duncan
- What does “avouch” mean in Macbeth’s speech to the murderers
- What does “malevolence” mean when used by Lennox
- What does “abhorred” mean when Macduff speaks of Macbeth
- What does “pernicious” mean in “by the pricking of my thumbs”
- What does “apparition” mean in Act 4
- What does “credulous” mean when Malcolm tests Macduff
- What does “fortitude” mean in Macbeth’s praise of courage
- What does “usurper” mean when Malcolm calls Macbeth one
- What does “purge” mean in Malcolm’s closing speech
- What does “fiend” mean in “this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
- What does “clamorous” mean describing the sounds of battle