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RAM vocabulary
Vocabulary from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| eftsoons | afterwards, soon afterwards |
| kirk | a church building |
| prow | the pointed front part of a ship; the bow |
| ken | to recognize at sight; to identify; to catch sight of |
| swound | a fainting fit |
| hollo | a call to excite attention, a shout of encouragement |
| vespers | evenings |
| averred | asserted, maintained |
| wist | to know |
| gramercy | used as an exclamation or surprise or sudden feeling; "mercy on us" |
| gossameres | a fine filmy substance consisting of cobwebs, spun by small spiders |
| clomb | climb |
| selfsame | the very same; identical |
| sere | dry, withered |
| sedge | the name of a kind of plant that grows together in a mass |
| crag | a detached, projecting, steep, ragged rock |
| corse | a living body; a corpse |
| rood | a cross; the cross upon which Jesus suffered |
| perforce | inevitably, unavoidably |
| shrieve | sheriff |