Macbeth Act 2 Vocabulary

loyalty to a ruler or country

• gild

• allegiance

• predominance

• lamentings

to add something in order to make it larger or more substantial

• malice

• gild

• augment

• parley

drinking and becoming noisy

• carousing

• clamored

• provoke

• summons

shouted and demanded noisily

• clamored

• parley

• carousing

• palpable

a severe, serious, or desperate situation or circumstance

• scruples

• gild

• parley

• dire

to cover with a substance; usually gold or gold-like

• gild

• lamentings

• augment

• summons

expressions of grief or sorrow

• provoke

• lamentings

• allegiance

• quenched

intention or desire to cause great harm to someone

• parley

• dire

• malice

• scruples

to talk or negotiate; speak with

• scruples

• augment

• parley

• palpable

able to be felt; touched

• palpable

• allegiance

• malice

• summons