Huck Finn Vocab 33-43

Question 1

dainty

Answer 1

delicate

Question 2

petrified

Answer 2

stunned

Question 3

Baron Trenck, Casanova, Benvenuto Cellini, Henri IV

Answer 3

all real people involving daring escapes

Question 4

seneschal

Answer 4

a steward or bailiff in medieval times

Question 5

Langudoc

Answer 5

a province in medieval France

Question 6

Navarre

Answer 6

a province in Spain; in the twelfth century, an independent country

Question 7

The Iron Mask

Answer 7

hero of Alexandre Dumas’s novel The man in the Iron Mask

Question 8

case-knives

Answer 8

ordinary kitchen knives

Question 9

counterpane

Answer 9

bedspread

Question 10

insurrection

Answer 10

rebellion

Question 11

addled

Answer 11

confused

Question 12

Lady Jane Grey, Gilford Dudley, Northumberland

Answer 12

married to Gilford Dudley, was persuaded by his father, the Duke of Northumberland, to claim the throne of England

Question 13

escutcheon

Answer 13

the shield on which a coat of arms is carved

Question 14

fess

Answer 14

a band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon

Question 15

elecampane

Answer 15

an herd which reduced the pain of stings

Question 16

fidget

Answer 16

to move restlessly or uneasily

Question 17

desperadoes

Answer 17

villains, criminals

Question 18

rummage

Answer 18

to search carefully

Question 19

sultry

Answer 19

hot

Question 20

brash

Answer 20

impudent, pushy

Question 21

faculties

Answer 21

any of the power of capacities possessed by the human mind