Macbeth Act II Vocabulary

to engage in drunken merry-making

• chamber

• carouse

• stealthy

capable of being perceived

• palpable

• knell

• prate

to be deliberately unclear

• wake

• prate

• equivocate

marked by quiet and caution and secrecy

• stealthy

• palpable

• carouse

too numerous to be counted

• murder

• prate

• multitudinous

to speak about unimportant matters rapidly

• prate

• knell

• wake

cause to become conscious

• prate

• wake

• knell

the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

• knell

• suborn

• combustion

to kill intentionally

• palpable

• murder

• provoke

to call in an official matter

• summon

• knell

• combustion