Crispin Cross of Lead Word List

  • Sin – separation from God
  • Taunt – to tease and coax
  • Bracken – plants and bushes
  • Shroud – large burial cloth
  • Gallows – a place to hang people
  • Rut – a depression in the dirt formed by wheels
  • Garment – generic term for clothing
  • Pauper – very poor person
  • Shun – to intentionally ignore and leave along
  • Deign – to lower yourself to do something
  • Cloying – smothering
  • Contempt – to think something is worthless
  • Astride – to straddle between your legs
  • Scorn – to show contempt, to ‘dis’
  • Stately – large, solid, majestic, important
  • Transgression – to break a law against someone else
  • Poach – to illegally hunt animals
  • Sorrow – intense sadness
  • Burden – a heavy item that causes you to get tired
  • Decay – to rot
  • Executioner – the person who legally kills a prisoner
  • Bramble – thorn bushes
  • Entomb – to put into a tomb
  • Stag – a male deer
  • Engulf – to surround (and bring down)
  • Welt – swelling on  your body
  • Ensnare – trapped
  • Transfixed – to stare and watch in facination
  • Hurtling – flying through the air
  • Sought – past tense of seek
  • Bowels – intestines
  • Curfew – the legal time you must be inside
  • Kin – your relatives
  • Avail – to be of use or value
  • Affix – to attach
  • Relentless – never stopping
  • Clasp – an attachment for closing something
  • Parchment – animal skin used for writing
  • Wrath – anger
  • Cast – looked
  • Mock – to make fun of
  • Haste – hurry
  • Wince – facial gesture in pain
  • Plight – a bad situation
  • Reside – to live in a place
  • Vault – a high place above you that arches
  • Millstone – a donut shaped stone used for grinding grain
  • Serf – a peasant
  • Jibe – practical joke
  • Impoverish – poverty, poor
  • Grazing – cattle moving from place to place eating
  • Pike – pole weapon
  • Ablaze – on fire
  • Christendom – Christian countries
  • Untoward – stubborn
  • Thatch – a roof made from grass
  • Emerge – to come out
  • Erected – to build up
  • Wattle – sticks and mud house
  • Tolling – ringing
  • Infidel – someone not from my religion
  • Conceal – to hide
  • Bailiff – a law man who works for the sheriff
  • Haste – to go fast
  • Meandered – to move in a non-direct manner
  • Daub – mud
  • Croft – small kitchen garden
  • Trestle – saw horse
  • Decree – law by voice
  • Babble – an onomatopoeia of a bubbling sound
  • Pinnacle – tip top of a mountain
  • Archery butt – target
  • Strident – loud and harsh
  • Canonical hours – church hours
  • Apprehension – fear of what might happen’
  • Peal – to ring
  • Dismount – to go off of a horse
  • Assemble – to put together
  • Rhythmic – having to do with rhythm
  • Clamor – loud confusion
  • Stoop – bent forward
  • Cease – to stop
  • Lawful – legal
  • Undone – to be ruined or destroyed
  • Sow – to plant
  • Glaive – a pole weapon
  • Longbow – large long bow
  • League – 3 miles
  • Moot – something that doesn’t matter any more
  • Treason – to betray your country
  • Wiry – built like wires
  • Vespers – #6 church hour
  • Incomprehension – you can’t understand
  • Perch – a ledge to sit/stand on
  • Petition – a request
  • Henceforward – from now on
  • A Judas – a person who betrays
  • Siege – blockade, to surround
  • Scrutinize – to look closely
  • My fancy – my imagination
  • Sullen – gloomy silence and being irritated
  • Utterly – completely
  • Rafter – wooden beam holding up a roof
  • Wayward – to go off on your won
  • Porridge – oatmeal
  • Exile – to be forced to be sent away
  • Reluctant — unwilling, hesitant
  • Crone – old witch-like woman
  • Pondering – to think
  • Carcass – dead body of an animal
  • Aye – yes
  • Foreboding – evil prediction of the future
  • Thong – an attaching strap
  • Shilling – 12 pennies
  • Disquiet – to feel uneasy
  • Skirt – to go around the outside edge
  • Loomed – to come into view as a large but indistinct image
  • Lumbered – to move slowly and heavily
  • Westerly – direction to the west
  • Abide – to bear patiently
  • Proper – that exact place
  • Raucously – harsh sounding
  • Boundary – a division on land
  • Uppermost – in or into the highest permanent position
  • Shrewd – having a sharp mind
  • Evasive – to get away (or avoid) by skill or trickery
  • Corrupt – influenced by bribes; dishonest
  • Glutton – person who never seems to have enough of anything
  • Sneer – to smile with a facial expression of scorn or contempt
  • Doddering – to be unsteady, shake, tremble, totter
  • Treason – the betrayal of a trust
  • Martyr – a person who suffers death rather than give up his religion
  • Elation – high spirit, joy, pride
  • Belied – to show to be false
  • Mocking – ridicule
  • Prudent – discreet, cautious
  • Warily – caution or careful
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2 Responses to Crispin Cross of Lead Word List

  1. brenda says:

    where can we find the grammar book??????????
    or where can we find the practice page for the grammar test??????????????????????

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