Macbeth: Act 1 & 2 Vocab.

“This, in turn, may impede legitimate shark conservation efforts and fuel counterproductive management programs like culling and setting shark nets.”

In this sentence, impede means to:

• hinder

• encourage

• involve

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"Because Puerto Rico is neither a U.S. state nor a sovereign nation, the restructuring process is uncertain."

Source: Wall Street Journal

In this sentence, sovereign means:

• not controlled by outside forces

• relying on another for support

• relating to or located near the sea

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"In fact, they had encountered the same wave-particle duality of light that was confounding their elders in physics."

Source: Big Science

In this sentence, confounding means:

• confusing

• condemning

• confirming

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Defect means :

• a failing or deficiency

• the quality of being widespread

• an inclination to kind or charitable acts

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"I conferred with my mother about my plight, and as always she had an encouraging word."

Source: Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography

In this sentence, plight means:

• a situation which extrication is difficult

• the advancement of some cause

• the state of being intensely interested

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"But the malady would not wait; it augmented rapidly with strange symptoms."

Source: Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

In this sentence, augmented means:

• grew or intensified

• emitted a loud noise

• presented a danger to

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"Olympic organizers have said that rain and a lack of snow have always been foreseen as a possibility because of Vancouver’s coastal, ________ climate, but they have acknowledged that they are pushing their contingency plans to the limit."

Source: New York Times

• temperate

• rebellious

• sorrowful

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"He did not repent of the day in which he assaulted his adversaries: it was like the assault of a hero descended from undaunted ancestors."

Source: Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards

In this sentence, undaunted means:

• brave

• remote

• cruel

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Treason means:

• betrayal

• harvest

• fertile

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Interpret means to:

• give an explanation to

• take hold of

• grant rights to

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