Canterbury Tales Vocab
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| 207497760 | engendering | giving rise to | |
| 207497761 | hallowed | holy, sacred | |
| 207497762 | boorish | rude, uncouth, ill-mannered | |
| 207497763 | burnished | highly polished | |
| 207497764 | zest | excitement, fervor | |
| 207497765 | sedately | calmly and seriously | |
| 207497766 | sentiment | feeling, emotion | |
| 207497767 | prelate | a priest of superior rank | |
| 207497768 | glib | marked by ease in speaking or writing to the point of being insincere | |
| 207497769 | gallant | noble | |
| 207497770 | scope | range of operation or authority | |
| 207497771 | penitents | a person under the direction of a confessor | |
| 207497772 | shrift | confession | |
| 207497773 | absolution | forgiveness | |
| 207497774 | verity | honesty, state of being truthful | |
| 207497775 | commerce | commercial dealings, trade, interaction | |
| 207497776 | arbitrate | to mediate or judge between two disputing parties | |
| 207497777 | wantonness | extravagance | |
| 207497778 | motley | colorful (also, a fool's outfit) | |
| 207497779 | estimable | worthy of esteem, valuable, admirable | |
| 207497780 | preferment | advancement | |
| 207497781 | sanguine | happy, cheerful | |
| 207497782 | dais | raised platform | |
| 207497783 | tempest | violent storm | |
| 207497784 | pestilence | plague, massive disease | |
| 207497785 | diligent | hardworking, assiduous | |
| 207497786 | mercenary | a soldier for hire, motivated by money | |
| 207497787 | contemptuous | disdainful, scornful | |
| 207497788 | obstinate | stubborn | |
| 207497789 | repine | express dejection or discontent | |
| 207497790 | buffoon | fool | |
| 207497791 | duress | constraint by threat; coercion | |
| 207497792 | gelding | a castrated male horse | |
| 207497793 | pervarication | straying away from the truth | |
| 207497794 | scurrility | vulgarity | |
| 207497795 | skittish | nervous, uncontrollable | |
| 207497796 | paramours | lovers | |
| 207497797 | amorous | strongly moved by love, especially sexual love | |
| 207497798 | proxy | person authorized to act for another | |
| 207497799 | solace | comfort | |
| 207497800 | inferring | guess, surmise | |
| 207497801 | asperity | roughness of manner or of temper | |
| 207497802 | abate | cease or reduce in degree or intensity | |
| 207497803 | perturbation | agitation of the mind | |
| 207497804 | apoplexy | fainting or having a stroke | |
| 207497805 | deportment | behavior, bearing | |
| 207497806 | timorous | fearful | |
| 207497807 | trifling | inconsequential | |
| 207497808 | superfluity | excess | |
| 207497809 | tribulation | trouble, defeat, long-term and serious problems | |
| 207497810 | manifest | obvious, evident |