Quiz #3- Pardoner's Tale Flashcards by Anna Sherburne | Brainscape

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Ribaldry

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Lewd or vulgar; someone of lower class/ status

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Replete

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Provided; well supplied

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Sustenance

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Gives support or strength

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Ghastlier

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Horrible to the senses; frightening

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Beseeming

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Becoming; fitting

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Marchioness

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Female; wife or widow of a marquee

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Benignity

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Mild characteristics that aren’t threatening

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Viands

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Item of food; tasty dish

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Exorcism

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Introduction

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Superfluity

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Luxurious living; excess

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Transubstantiate

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Transform; changes substance

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Miscreants

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Rascals; criminal or vicious behavior

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Absolution

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Remission of sins by a priest

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Rhetorical

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A fact

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Prerogative

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Right; power or privilege

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Conjecture

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Inference by detective or presumptive evidence

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Acquiesce

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Comply; accept strategically

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Scourges

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Causes great suffering or affliction

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Impudence

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Insolence; cockiness