Canterbury Tale

Question 1

Absolution

Answer 1

A freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties

Question 2

Apothecary

Answer 2

A druggist licensed to prescribe medicine

Question 3

Amenable

Answer 3

Ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable

Question 4

Avarice

Answer 4

Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain hoard and wealth

Question 5

Axiom

Answer 5

A self evident truth that requires no proof; a universally accepted principle

Question 6

Blasphemy

Answer 6

An act of cursing or reviling god or scared things

Question 7

Castigate

Answer 7

To criticize or reprimand severely; to punish in order to correct

Question 8

Choleric

Answer 8

Extremely irritable or easily angered

Question 9

Decorum

Answer 9

Dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc

Question 10

Discreet

Answer 10

Respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature

Question 11

Disdainful

Answer 11

Feeling full of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; haughty contempt; scorn

Question 12

Divest

Answer 12

Deprive (someone) of power, rights or possessions

Question 13

Effigy

Answer 13

A representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument; a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule

Question 14

Encumber

Answer 14

To block up or fill with what is obstructive; a burden or weigh down

Question 15

Engender

Answer 15

To produce, cause, or give rise to; to beget; procreate

Question 16

Estimable

Answer 16

Reputable, respectable, admirable, laudable, meritorious, excellent, good

Question 17

Florid

Answer 17

Reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion; flowery; excessively ornate

Question 18

Garrulous

Answer 18

Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters

Question 19

Impediment

Answer 19

Obstruction; hinderance; obstacle; any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder

Question 20

Impudent

Answer 20

Shameless or brazenly immodest

Question 21

Indigence

Answer 21

Seriously impoverished condition; poverty

Question 22

Malady

Answer 22

Any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deep stated

Question 23

Martyr

Answer 23

A person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion; a person who feels constant suffering

Question 24

Miscreant

Answer 24

Depraved, villainous, or base

Question 25

Penitence

Answer 25

The state of being penitent; regret for ones wrongdoing or sinning; contrition; repentance

Question 26

Plaintive

Answer 26

Expressing sorrow or melancholy

Question 27

Prevarication

Answer 27

The act of lying; a lie

Question 28

Purge

Answer 28

To rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify

Question 29

Relic

Answer 29

A surviving memorial of something past

Question 30

Repent

Answer 30

To feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct

Question 31

Sanguine

Answer 31

A cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident

Question 32

Solicitous

Answer 32

Anxious or concerned

Question 33

Sundry

Answer 33

Various or diverse

Question 34

Tacit

Answer 34

Understood without being openly expressed; implied, silent

Question 35

Terse

Answer 35

Curt, concise

Question 36

Umbrage

Answer 36

Offense, annoy

Question 37

Vice

Answer 37

Immoral conduct, depraved habits

Question 38

Victuals

Answer 38

Food supplies, provisions

Question 39

Wanton

Answer 39

Malicious ,cruel, vicious