Macbeth Flashcards by Min Chen

Very bare, bleak

Austere

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Hazy, vague, indistinct or confused

Nebulous

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Dark, gloomy and serious

Somber

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Give in

Capitulate/succumb

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Believe on uncertain or tentative grounds

Conjecture/surmise

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Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

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To reluctantly agree to do something you consider beneath you

Deign

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To be indecisive

Dither

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To bring out or develop something

Educe

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Wipe out, obliterate

Efface

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To evade, escape

Elude

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Drag someone into a mess

Embroil

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Evince

To bring out or develop

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To obtain something by force, threats or other unfair means

Extort

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To chain, restrain

Fetter

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To fill with something, especially a strong feeling or opinion

Imbue

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To initiate or provoke an action or event

Instigate

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To seize a position of power or importance) illegally or by force

Usurp

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A plague, disease; something that destroys hope

Blight

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An event with disastrous consequences

Calamity

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A false or baseless rumor or belief, often intended to deceive or mislead

Canard

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Difference, failure of things to correspond

Discrepancy

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Crafty dishonesty

Duplicity

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A person who agitates

Incendiary

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A wet swampy bog; figuratively, something that traps and confuses

Morass

The worst moment; the lowest point

Nadir

A grossly inferior imitation

Travesty

Flagrantly wicked or impious

Nefarious

A superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, façade

Veneer

Reeks of humiliation, looks like the lowest of the lows

Abject

Without definite shape or type

Amorphous

Showing modest reserve; lacking self-confidence

Diffident

Hungry, greedy or eager for something

Esurient

Brave in the face of danger

Intrepid

Practical, or an easy way to achieve a goal that's not necessarily moral

Expedient

Extremely distressing, disturbing or emotionally traumatic

Harrowing

Cannot be unraveled or disentangled

Inextricable

Ghastly, sensational

Lurid

Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

Surreptitious

Present everywhere, pervasive

Ubiquitous

Excessive, uncontrolled and cruel

Wanton

Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

Audacious

Clear, sharp, direct

Incisive

Fictitious, false, wrong

Apocryphal

Cold, harsh, apathetic

Callous

Able to perceive things that others cannot

Clairvoyant

Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

Desultory

Moving in an uncontrolled, irregular or unpredictable way

Errant

Shifting in character, inconstant

Fickle

Glib

Fluent and persuasive in speech, often in an insincere or superficial manner

Harmful, antagonistic or opposing something

Inimical

Dishonest or untruthful in speech or conduct

Mendacious

Attractive on the surface but having no value or substance in reality

Meretricious

Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

Specious/spurious

Thin, affording no ease or reassurance

Tenuous

Effective, articulate, clear-cut

Trenchant

Annoyed, frustrated or worried

Vexed

Vengeful; unwilling to forgive

Vindictive

Characterized by bitter, harsh or caustic language, criticism or behavior

Vitriolic

Characterized by ready or rapid speech; fluent

Voluble

Crafty, sly

Wily

Very clever at assessing situations and turn them to one's advantage; perceptive and shrewd

Astute

Simple and natural, without deception

Artless

Intellectually convincing

Cogent

Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow; wanting to atone for having done something wrong

Contrite

Determined by chance or whim rather than by necessity or reason

Capricious

Dignified, proper and in good taste

Decorous

Feeling extreme discouragement or dejection

Despondent

Fleeting, momentary

Evanescent/ephemeral

Frenzied, hectic, frantic

Frenetic

Separated and narrow-minded; tight-knit, closed off

Insular

Easily provoked to anger; irritable

Irascible

Foul, rundown and repulsive; morally degraded

Sordid

To desire enviously

Covet

Unpleasant or dangerous and develops gradually without being noticed

Insidious

To spread throughout, saturate

Permeate

Bravery or ability to face tough situations

Mettle

A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values

Philistine

Deep, bitter resentment

Rancor/acrimony

Praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Sycophantic

Holding onto a purely formal title without any real authority

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Macbeth Flashcards

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