Part 1 Vocabulary Quiz

What is the meaning of prophecy?

• large and sturdy

• barren, uninhabited

• attach and anchor

• a foretelling or prediction of an event

What is the meaning of blight?

• swarming

• barren, uninhabited

• disease causing death in plant tissues

• to die

What is the meaning of burly?

• slang for a boatswain who is petty officer on a boat in charge of rigging, anchors, and cables

• large and sturdy

• barren, uninhabited

• lacking very little variety

What is the meaning of magistrate?

• poor, uneducated people

• to act with a great smugness of satisfaction

• the judge in a police court

• to apologize for or regret a past action

What is the meaning of gallows?

• large and sturdy

• to linger with no purpose

• a fence used as an enclosure for protection or defense

• a wooden platform that is used to execute by hanging

What is the meaning of peasants?

• to linger with no purpose

• disease causing death in plant tissues

• clear and transparent

• poor, uneducated people

What is the meaning of pinnance?

• swarming

• a person who comes from a prominent birth or rank

• a small sailing ship, usually used alongside a larger ship

• distrustful

What is the meaning of yeoman?

• a wooden platform that is used to execute by hanging

• to accommodate

• distrust

• a farmer who works his own land

What is the meaning of scoff?

• a wax made from the fatty tissue of animals

• lacking very little variety

• distrust

• to die

What is the meaning of discreetly?

• distrust

• easily fooled

• quietly or privately

• clear and transparent