Macbeth Act V Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Word	Definition	Part of Speech	Sentence in Context	Own Sentence
1. Arbitrate	to act as a judge in a dispute between others	T. verb, i. verb	“Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate, / But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.” V.iv.19–20	Judges act as arbitrators between the plaintiffs and the defendants.
2. Clamorous	demanding attention loudly and insistently	Adjective	“Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath. / Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.” V.vi.9–10	The car alarm was very clamorous and stressed me out.
3. Cowed	to frighten somebody into submission or obedience	T. verb	“Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so, / For it hath cowed my better part of man!” V.viii.23–24	The king cowed the nobles by saying if they didn’t listen to him, he would kill them.
4. Equivocation	the use of vague or ambiguous and sometimes misleading language	Noun	“I pull in resolution, and begin / To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend / That lies like truth…” V.v.42–44	The equivocation of the riddle made it hard to figure out.
5. Valiant	brave and steadfast; a brave and steadfast person	Adjective, noun	“Some say he’s mad; others, that lesser hate him, / Do call it valiant fury…” V.ii.13–14	Police officers must be valiant to protect the citizens.