Vocab for macbeth

• Impotence

  • inability to take effective action; helplessness.
  • "people speak constantly of their social and political impotence"
  • inability in a man to achieve an erection or orgasm.
  • "few men suffering from impotence feel confident enough to ask their GP for advice"
• Melodrama

  • a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
• Visceral

  • relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.
  • "the voters' visceral fear of change"
• mutinous

  • refusing to obey orders from a person in authority
• subservient

  • prepared to obey others unquestioningly
• Parlance

  • a particular way of speaking
• anatomical

  • relating to the body
• vitriol

  • bitter criticism or old term for sulphuric acid
• Manducate

  • to chew / eat
• Impetuous

  • acting quickly without care
• Laudatory (Language)

  • expression of praise
• (Moral) Ambivalence

  • The state of having mixed feelings about something
• Usurp

  • to take over
• Analogous

  • similar or comparable
• Laconic

  • using very few words
• Genteel

  • characterised by exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, or respectability.
  • "her genteel upbringing"
• Sycophant

  a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
• Veracity

  • truthfulness
• Lethargic

  • feeling sluggish and apathetic