Crispin Vocabulary Chapters 1-4

Question 1

Pinnacle - I reached the pinnacle.

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A high peak or point

Question 2

Pauper - The burial took place amongst the other paupers’ graves in the walled cemetery ...

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An extremely poor person

Question 3

Infidels - Lord Furnival protected us from the wicked infidels.

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Unbelievers

Question 4

Engulfed - ...I was still engulfed by grief at my mother’s death.

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Overwhelmed

Question 5

Cloying - Only when I sniffed again did I become sure of the woodland smells and cloying air.

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Overly sweet

Question 6

Bailiff - I caught sight of the bailiff, Roger Kinsworthy, and the reeve, Odo Langland.

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An overseer of the estate

Question 7

Compline - Long past the hour of compline, the last prayers of the night, a sound aroused...

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The last prayers of the night

Question 8

Farthing - The value of my mother’s labor was a penny each day, mine but a farthing.

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A coin worth one-quarter of a penny

Question 9

Shunned - As they have shunned my mother in life, so they shunned her now.

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Avoided, kept away from

Question 10

Shroud - The priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud ...

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A cloth used to wrap a body for burial

Question 11

Relentless - I was oft the butt of jests, jibes, and relentless hounding.

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Continuous; unstoppable

Question 12

Contempt - When he deigned to look in my direction, he offered nothing but contempt.

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A strong feeling of combined dislike and lack of respect

Question 13

Reeve - I caught sight of the bailiff, Roger Kinsworthy, and the reeve, Odo Langland.

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Sheriff in the 11th century

Question 14

Deigned - When he deigned to look in my direction, he offered nothing but contempt.

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Done something considered beneath one's dignity

Question 15

Wrath - Not only was I in fear of being found and made subject to the steward’s wrath ...

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Intense anger

Questions 15