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VOCABULARY LISTS FOR CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD
List the words and definitions as you would see them in a dictionary. (Due dates are on the web site)
Use the definition that is appropriate for how the word is used in the story.

SECTION 1
Chapters 1-12
jibe
deigned

crofts
murk

bracken
glaive

impenetrable
entombed
transgressions
reeve

alterations
impoverished
farthing
tonsured

wattle
genuflected
foreboding
minions

canonical
paupers

cloying
alb

taunted
contempt

poaching
shroud

infidels
SECTION 2
Chapters 13-25
punctilious
pestilence
repulsive

desolation
distended

ensnare
enchanted

gluttons
meandering

contorted
pillaged

dire
besieged

surname
acolyte

sustenance
lamenting

trepidation
reverence
SECTION 3
Chapters 26-36
railed
mollify

grisly
slake

scudding
timorous

gambol
bluster

evasive
subdued

leagues
swill

possessed
rueful

cacophony
portentous

portcullis
emblazoned

kirtle
gauntlet

pattens
raucously
mazer


SECTION 4
Chapters 37-48
furtively
tumult

hurly
laggards

pelting
vestibule

beguiled
sumptuously

palfrey
livery

muck
disconcerted
tankard

serpentine
resumption
caterwauling
encrusted

solar
buffeting
SECTION 5
Chapters 49-58
purchase
disdain

infatuated
brandished

scabrous
succumb

protruded
voracious

sconces
cowls

impending
lofty

unfettered
gasped

stagnant
courier

warrant
warren

swarthy
agape

compose
rebuke

breach
summoned