foul
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
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report
to give an account or representation of in words
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.
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brave
possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
‘Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
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rebel
a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him.
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supply
give something useful or necessary to
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
The merciless Macdonwald…
From the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
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wound
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
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minion
a servile or fawning dependant
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name–
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave.
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hail
praise vociferously
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
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noble
having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
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partner
an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
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prophetic
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting?
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success
an attainment that is successful
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
The news of thy success.
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praise
an expression of approval and commendation
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
When he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his
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earnest
something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor.
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vantage
place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
Whether he was combined
With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
He labour’d in his country’s wreck, I know not
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treason
disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
But treasons capital, confess’d and proved,
Have overthrown him.
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deserve
be worthy or deserving