Wit and Wisdom Module 1 Content Specific Terms Grade 7

Question 1

a man who served a lord as a mounted soldier

Accepted Answer

knight

Question 2

a person who hunts or fishes without permission on someone else's property

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poacher

Question 3

a person who is educated and studies or attends school

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scholar

Question 4

a person who sells official pardons, or excuses from sins, from the church to raise money

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pardoner

Question 5

a system for organizing groups (people, ideas, or objects) based on levels of importance, power

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hierarchy

Question 6

a person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour, for example)

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miller

Question 7

intense and selfish desire

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greed

Question 8

a particular way of viewing things or events

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perspective

Question 9

words related to manners in the Middle Ages

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genteel

Question 10

religious people of the Middle Ages

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clergy

Question 11

a long trip taken to a sacred place for a religious or moral purpose

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pilgrimage

Question 12

period of time directly following the Middle Ages

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renaissance

Question 13

having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent:

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fervently

Question 14

a person from a medieval church who calls, or summons, people before the church for crimes

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summoner

Question 15

delicately, beautifully, exquisitely

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daintily

Question 16

in an outwardly shy or modest way intended to be alluring

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coyly

Question 17

(n.) visually descriptive language, especially in a literary work

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imagery

Question 18

(adj.) related to the Middle Ages

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medieval

Question 19

an aristocrat, a lord, or a lady

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nobles

Question 20

a deficiency in quantity

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shortage

Question 21

a youth trained to become a knight in medieval times

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page

Question 22

the plague that ravished Europe and killed 1/3 of its population

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The Black Death

Question 23

the system, beliefs, and practices of knighthood in medieval times.

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chivalry

Question 24

a person who runs an inn, which is a place people can have a meal and sleep for the night

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innkeeper

Question 25

When a person makes a subtle hint or veiled insult, usually about something immoral or improper

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innuendo

Question 26

a member of the religious clergy, like a priest or a vicar

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parson

Question 27

a social organization where the father is the supreme authority

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patriarchy

Question 28

people who had special training or skills in the Middle Ages (cook, blacksmith)

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tradesmen

Wit and Wisdom Module 1 Content Specific Terms Grade 7

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Wit and Wisdom Module 1 Content Specific Terms Grade 7

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