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Canterbury Tales
Term | Definition |
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Avarice | Extreme Greed |
Agility | Ability to move quickly or easily |
Covetous | Jealous |
Palmer | Pilgrim travelling to a religious shrine |
Parley | Discussion or conference |
Saunter | Walking in a slow, leisurely manner |
Engender | Produce or create |
Martyr | Someone who dies for a cause |
Motley | Multicolored |
Vermin | Small animals that cause disease and destruction |
Hostelry | |
Pilgrimage | |
Chivalry | |
Castigate | |
Ravenous | |
Personable | |
Accrue | |
Penitence | Remorse |
Absolution | Forgiveness |
Sanguine | Cheerful |
Choleric | Easily angered |
Malady | Disease |
Abstruse | Difficult to understand |
Reeve | A manager of a house |
Duress | Harshness |