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Macbeth Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

Select the correct definition:

knell

a)

the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

b)

to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess

c)

a follower or servant of a powerful person

d)

forcibly broken through or opened up

2.

Select the correct definition:

Heath

a)

A candy bar

b)

A tract of level wasteland

c)

turmoil, confusion, fighting

d)

a follower or servant of a powerful person

3.

Select the correct definition:

Rapt

a)

to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner

b)

a tract of level wasteland

c)

wholly absorbed as in thought, preoccupied

d)

waved in a threatening way

4.

Select the correct definition:

Harbinger

a)

the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

b)

an indication of the approach of something or someone

c)

wholly absorbed as in thought, preoccupied

d)

the time between one event, process, or period and another

5.

Select the correct definition:

Palpable

a)

a follower or servant of a powerful person

b)

an indication of the approach of something or someone

c)

a tract of level wasteland

d)

capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind

6.

Gru's minions were working on a device that could shrink the moon.


Which of the following words could best replace the word minions?

a)

mob

b)

followers

c)

subjects

d)

colleagues

7.

Given the little information in the post, she surmised her friend was upset.


Which word would best replace the word surmised?

a)

knew

b)

inferred

c)

guessed

d)

wondered if

8.

When the hurly-burly is done, when the battle's lost and won.


Which of the following words would best replace the term hurly- burly?

a)

celebration

b)

event

c)

fighting

d)

party

9.

Let him know about the broil between the two enemies when you see him.


What word would best replace the word broil?

a)

brawl

b)

complement

c)

conversation

d)

exchange

10.

The children plague their mother every time they want more dessert.


What word would best replace the word plague?

a)

annoy

b)

beg

c)

ask

d)

enlighten

11.

While waiting for a new president, she will be the interim president.


Which term is least likely to replace the word interim?

a)

temporary

b)

stand-in

c)

acting

d)

permanent

12.

He brandished his sword toward the man he hated.


Which term would least likely replace brandished?

a)

threatened

b)

raised

c)

concealed

d)

shook

13.

The intruder breached the front gate and left no survivors.


Which word would least likely replace the word breached?

a)

broke

b)

intruded on

c)

forced through

d)

knocked at

14.

We pledge allegiance to our country.


Which word would least likely replace the word allegiance?

a)

loyalty

b)

devotion

c)

dishonor

d)

faithfulness

15.

When she found out how they had wringed her, her heart filled with malice toward them.


Which word is least likely to replace the word malice?

a)

Hatred

b)

Love

c)

anger

d)

animosity