English IV H - Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz

treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed

• Melancholy

• Prescribe

• Stifle

• Downtrodden

a church office endowed with fixed capital assets

• Benefice

• Alderman

• Confidently

• Parson

rising above others in rank or achievement

• Boorish

• Vigilant

• Eminent

• Trite

truthfulness; good faith

• Honesty
• Discreet

• Tenacious

• Sincerity

holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent

• Precarious

• Superfluous

• Sundry

• Tenacious

any substance that can be used as food

• Neutral

• Victual

• Palaver

• Theoretical

a crude image of a despised person

• Effigy

• Neophyte

• Reform

• Motif

bravely, courageously

• Feudalism

• Diligent

• Agiley

• Valiantly

the existing state of affairs

• Ecclesiastic

• Effigy

• Status Quo

• Feudalism

a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land

• Imperialism

• Romanticism

• Feudalism

• Asceticism