Don Quixote Lessons 1 & 2 Vocabulary

a protective suit, usually made of heavy metal, worn by knights in the Middle Ages

• homage

• honorable

• armor

• joust

to participate in a competition to practice the fighting skills used by a knight

• homage

• armor

• mount

• joust

deserving respect

• honorable

• mount

• armor

• joust

a horse or other animal intended to be ridden

• homage

• mount

• honorable

• armor

special respect or honor

• mount

• armor

• homage

• honorable

to give a name or title to someone; to make someone a knight

• dub

• lance

• squire

• ballad

a place where people who are traveling can eat, rest, or sleep

• menace

• psalm

• inn

• meddle

a young boy in training to become a knight; the first step in the process of becoming a knight

• blow

• dub

• menace

• page

a poem or song used in religious worship

• squire

• psalm

• menace

• meddle

a hard hit using a part of the body or an object

• ballad

• lance

• blow

• inn