Key Vocabulary

Question 1

monarchy (noun)

Answer 1

a form of government with a monarch at the head

Question 2

nonpareil (noun)

Answer 2

having no match or equal; unrivalled

Question 3

primogeniture (noun)

Answer 3

the system of inheritance or succession by the first-born, specifically the eldest son

Question 4

prophecy (noun)

Answer 4

a prediction of what will happen in the future

Question 5

regicide (noun)

Answer 5

the action of killing a king

Question 6

succession (noun)

Answer 6

the action or process of inheriting a title

Question 7

superstition (noun)

Answer 7

a firm belief in the supernatural

Question 8

thane (noun)

Answer 8

A man who held land granted by the king

Question 9

treason (noun)

Answer 9

the crime of betraying your country

Question 10

unlineal (noun)

Answer 10

not of the family line

Question 11

usurper (noun)

Answer 11

a person who takes a position of power illegally

Question 12

apparition (noun)

Answer 12

a ghost or ghost-like image of a person

Question 13

avaricious (adj)

Answer 13

having extreme greed for wealth or material gain

Question 14

broil (noun)

Answer 14

battle, fight

Question 15

dichotomy (noun)

Answer 15

a division or contrast between two opposite things

Question 16

equivocation (noun)

Answer 16

the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth

Question 17

Golgotha (noun)

Answer 17

site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified

Question 18

hallucinate (verb)

Answer 18

think you can see something which isn’t really there

Question 19

harbinger (noun)

Answer 19

a thing or a person that signals the approach of something else

Question 20

heinous (adj)

Answer 20

totally wicked and evil

Question 21

incarnadine (verb)

Answer 21

to tinge or stain with red

Question 22

lineage (noun)

Answer 22

direct descent from an ancestor