Chapters 1-5 reading vocabulary

The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

• Antiquity

• Rhetorical

• Inordinate

• Ususper

- relating to using language effectively

• Antiquity

• Rhetorical

• Inordinate

• Usurper

 beyond normal limits

• Antiquity

• Rhetorical

• Inordinate

• Usurper

one who wrongfully seizes and holds the place of another

• Antiquity

• Rhetorical

• Inordinate

• Usurper

-moral weakness

• vice

• Inherent

• arbiter

• Covet

 existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

• vice

• inherent

• arbiter

• covet

-someone with the power to settle matters at will

• vice

• inherent

• arbiter

• covet

 wish, long, or crave for

• Vice

• inherent

• arbiter

• covet

a formal termination of a marriage or judicial proceeding

• Annulment

• Precept

• Insurrection

• Oligarrchy

a rule of personal conduct

• Annulment

• Precept

• Insurrection

• Oilarchy