chapter 5 vocab

Question 0

doublet

Answer 0

vest

Question 1

immovable

Answer 1

unable to move.

Question 2

riddle

Answer 2

belt

Question 3

heresy

Answer 3

a teaching that is contrary to that of the church

Question 4

cathedral

Answer 4

the home church of a bishop

Question 5

jousting

Answer 5

two knights on horseback, each trying to knock the other off with his lance.

Question 6

social status

Answer 6

level in society

Question 7

courtesy

Answer 7

good maners

Question 8

spur

Answer 8

a device worn on the heel, used for urging a horse on.

Question 9

to keep vigil

Answer 9

staying awake and praying

Question 10

to dub

Answer 10

to make a person a knight by touching the shoulder with a sword.

Question 11

hierarchy

Answer 11

the order of ranks in a system

Question 12

obsolete

Answer 12

useless because it is out of date

Question 13

siege

Answer 13

the act of surrounding a fortified place in order to capture it

Question 14

dauphin

Answer 14

eldest son of the french king

Question 15

hither

Answer 15

here

Question 16

commerce

Answer 16

the buying, selling, and trading of goods and services.

Question 17

tanner

Answer 17

a person who makes hide into leather

Question 18

guild

Answer 18

a union of persons practicing the same craft

Question 19

apprentice

Answer 19

one who learns a trade by working for a master

Question 20

master

Answer 20

a certified expert

Question 21

journey man

Answer 21

one admitted to a guild but not yet a master

Question 22

seamstress

Answer 22

a woman who makes a living by sewing

Question 23

chamber pot

Answer 23

a pot used instead of a toilet before plumbing was invented

Question 24

prohibition

Answer 24

a ban

Question 25

incentive

Answer 25

something that urges a person on.

Question 26

mandatory

Answer 26

required

Question 27

pageant

Answer 27

an elaborate entertainment displaying scenes from history

Question 28

bear baiting

Answer 28

a public spectacle in which dogs torment a chained bear

Question 29

charter

Answer 29

a writen order authorized the right to operate as a town

Question 30

libel

Answer 30

a false or damaging statement

Question 31

oratory

Answer 31

a small chapel

Question 32

redress

Answer 32

set right

Question 33

parish

Answer 33

church-sponcered

Question 34

tutor

Answer 34

a private teacher

Question 35

inventor

Answer 35

a detailed list of iteams

Question 36

martyred

Answer 36

killed for the sake of religion

Question 37

relic

Answer 37

a sacred object associated with a saint.

Question 38

architect

Answer 38

one who designs buildings.

Question 39

flying buttress

Answer 39

an archway built against a wall to help support it

Question 40

gothic

Answer 40

a type of architecture featuring steep roofs pointed arches

Question 41

bubonic plague

Answer 41

a highly contagious; swollen lymph glands were a typical synptom

Question 42

lymph glands

Answer 42

rounded masses of tissue located under the arms and in the groin

Question 43

hallucinating

Answer 43

seeing things that do not exist

Question 44

aerial photograph

Answer 44

a picture of the ground, taken from a great height

Question 45

scapegoat

Answer 45

a person wrongfully blamed, sometimes leading to persecution

Question 46

poll tax

Answer 46

a standard tax collected from every person.