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Crispen Vocab
Hard
29
Literature
7th Grade
10/26/2009

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Entombed
Definition
enclosed
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Hurtling
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flying
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Untoward
Definition
unfortunate
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Meandered
Definition
to wander aimesly
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fallow
Definition
plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
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Undone
Definition
brought to destruction or ruin.
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Leagues
Definition
A way of measuring distance
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Scrutinized
Definition
to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
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Lamenting
Definition
to feel or express sorrow or regret
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Disbanded
Definition
everyone going diffrent directions
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Notion
Definition
idea or thought
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Ghastly
Definition
shockingly frightful or dreadful
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Montony
Definition
sameness;repitition
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Cultivated
Definition
prepared and used for raising crops
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courier
Definition
messenger
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Rueful
Definition
feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful
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Garb
Definition
wearing apparel; clothes
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Consume
Definition
to eat or drink up; devour
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presiding
Definition
to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
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Engulfed
Definition
to swallow up in or as in a gulf; submerge
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Alb
Definition
a linen vestment with narrow sleaves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but any color in the Eastern Church.

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Canonical Hours
Definition
Periods of time set aside for prayer
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cottar
Definition
one who held no land in his own right
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glaives
Definition
a sword or broadsword
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Mazer
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a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood
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moot
Definition
assembly of people exercising judgeical power
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mummer
Definition
an actor, esp. a pantomimist.
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Serf
Definition
a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another or slave
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Tonsure
Definition

the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.

 

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