Quiz #3- Pardoner's Tale Flashcards
Ribaldry
Lewd or vulgar; someone of lower class/ status
Replete
Provided; well supplied
Sustenance
Gives support or strength
Ghastlier
Horrible to the senses; frightening
Abstruse
Difficult to understand
Beseeming
Becoming; fitting
Marchioness
Female; wife or widow of a marquee
Benignity
Mild characteristics that aren’t threatening
Viands
Item of food; tasty dish
Exorcism
Introduction
Superfluity
Luxurious living; excess
Transubstantiate
Transform; changes substance
Miscreants
Rascals; criminal or vicious behavior
Absolution
Remission of sins by a priest
Rhetorical
A fact
Prerogative
Right; power or privilege
Conjecture
Inference by detective or presumptive evidence
Acquiesce
Comply; accept strategically
Scourges
Causes great suffering or affliction
Impudence
Insolence; cockiness