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
where can we find the grammar book??????????
or where can we find the practice page for the grammar test??????????????????????
never mind