"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act II : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

palpable

I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

stealthy

Wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.

prate

Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it.

knell

I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

summons

I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

chamber

Who lies i' the second chamber?

murder

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep'

wake

There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried
'Murder!'
That they did wake each other

multitudinous

No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

equivocate

Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator.

carouse

Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock.

provoke

What three things does drink especially provoke?

unruly

The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down

combustion

prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time

suborn

They were suborn'd:
Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.

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