Vocabulary Words #3 Macbeth posterity - future generations; all of a person’s descendants

1. Vocabulary Words #3 Macbeth • posterity- future generations; all of a person’s descendants • prattle- to talk or chatter idly or meaninglessly; babble or prate • profundity- great depth; depth of intellect; profound knowledge • purveyors- those who furnish provisions; those who provide or procure • quell- to put down forcibly; suppress; to put down a disturbance • rancor- bitter long lasting resentment; enmity; bitter deep-seated ill will • rend- to tear or split apart into two pieces violently • sanctify- to set apart for sacred use; consecrate; to purify • searing- to char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument; causing to wither or to dry up • sieve- a utensil for sifting or straining • sovereign- one that exercises supreme, permanent authority; possessed of controlling power • spurn- to reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn • surfeited- to feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust • tidings- information or news • usurp- to seize and hold; to take possession or authority over something without right • utter- complete, absolute, entire; to express by speaking • vanquished- to defeat or conquer in battle; overpowered • wanton- immoral or unchaste; lewd • warranted- justification for an action or belief; justified