Macbeth Vocab Quiz 3

_______ is a fancy word for telling someone that something they did was really bad.

• impede

• beguile

• Chastise

“She chastised him for his insensitive remark."

Chastise means...

• to correct

• to ignore

• to flirt with

To ______ something is to delay or block its progress or movement.

• gall

• impede

• sway

Carrying six heavy bags will impede your progress if you're trying to walk across town in a hurry.

Impede means

• delay

• speed

• skip

Things that are outside everyday experience or knowledge

• metaphysical

• tidings

• pall

He was a professor of metaphysical philosophy at the university.

Metaphysical means...

• things you can smell

• things that are easily explained

• outside the everyday or normal experience

____ is an old-fashioned word for recent news.

• Tidings

• sway

• gall

"I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

Tidings means...

• weird things

• doom

• a message

_____ describes something irritating, like someone very rude.

• Tidings

• Gall

• Pall

"And she, who is the queen of gossip, had the gall to say that I talk about others?"

Gall means...

• humility

• flattery

• irritating audacity