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Vocabulary List for the First Semester

Lesson 1: Beowulf

1. Fiend

2. Reparation

3. Solace

4. Sentinel

5. mead-hall

6. to purge

7. to gorge

8. infamous

9. writhing

10. scabbard

11. loathsome

12. twain

13. fetters

14. mien

15. craven

Lesson 2: Le Morte D’Arthur

1. righteous

2. to entreat

3. peril

4. doleful

5. pillagers

6. to avail

7. hermitage

8. to inter

9. to swoon

10. hilt

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

11. dais

12. to assay

13. to cower

14. boon

15. to adjure

16. recreant

17. orisons

18. tryst

19. parley

20. to demur

21. to feign

22. adroitly

23. to behoove

24. uncouth

Canterbury Tales, “Prologue” 1

Lesson 3

A

1. to engender

2. chivalry

3. sovereign

4. boorish

5. coy

6. solicitous

7. cloister

8. to garnish

9. glib

10. gallant

11. absolution

12. victual

13. Guild

14. to avouch

B

15. prudent

16. malady

17. apothecary

18. pestilence

19. tithe

20. mire

21. frugal

22. cavalcade

23. salve

24. relics

25. prevarication

26. wantonness

27. secular

28. sanguine

Lesson 4: Canterbury Tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale”

1. antics

2. avarice

3. cupidity

4. to castigate

5. covetousness

6. publican

7. pallor

8. hoary

9. prating

10. miscreants

11. perdition

12. tarry

13. gluttony

Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

14. azure

15. debonair

16. timorous

17. humors

18. derision

19. rhetorician

20. maxim

21. altercation

22. temperate

23. stringent

24. paramour

25. to emulate

26. sycophant

27. cant

28. rhapsody

29. iniquity

Hamlet Vocabulary

Lesson 1: Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2

Scene 1

1. Approve

2. Avouch

3. Impress

4. Portentous

5. Precursor

6. Harbingers

7. Implements

8. Emulate

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