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Acquainted |
know about something or someone |
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Ascribe |
describe something and give a reason for it |
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Attire |
clothes, clothing |
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Aught |
anything whatever, anything at all |
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Baghdad |
Capital city of Iraq |
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Bate |
take away, lower, reduce by |
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Bereft |
left behind, alone |
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Bewilders |
confuses, befuddles |
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Brawny |
strong and muscular |
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Brook |
tolerate, put up with |
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Burgher |
a citizen of a town |
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Butt |
large cask, or barrel |
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Caliph |
a religious leader |
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Cavern |
large cave |
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Claret |
red wine |
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Commentary |
comments, story |
| Consternation |
great
dismay, terror combined with amazement |
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Corporation |
a group of people in charge of the town |
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Council |
corporation, group of people in charge |
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Cunning |
skill in deceiving |
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Decree |
a law |
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Ditty |
a simple song |
| Dolt |
a
stupid person |
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Endeavour |
an attempt at doing something |
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Enraptured |
filled with delight |
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Ermine |
white fur from an ermine (weasel type of animal) |
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Exclamation |
an outcry, loud calling out |
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Glutinous |
sticky like glue |
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Gnats |
small biting flies |
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Guilders |
unit of currency, golden coins |
| Hanover |
city in Germany |
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Hock |
German wine |
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Kegs |
small barrels |
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Mayor |
the head of a town or corporation |
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Moselle |
white wine |
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Mutinous |
unruly, turbulent, uncontrollable |
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Nuncheon |
a noon drink |
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Old-fangled |
old-fashioned |
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Outlandish |
strange, unconventional, bizarre, unfamiliar |
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Paunch |
a belly, especially a fat potbelly |
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Perished |
died |
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Piebald |
pied, spotted or patched, patches of colour |
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Plodders |
those which trudge or walk heavily |
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Poke |
a sack or bag |
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Portal |
large entrance, doorway |
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Pottage |
thick soup or stew |
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Psaltery |
old stringed instrument |
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Puncheon |
cask, or barrel holding liquid |
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Quaint |
odd, in an old-fashioned way |
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Quoth |
said |
| Remedy |
a
cure, something that solves a problem |
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Rhenish |
wine from the River Rhine region |
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Ribald |
common, coarse, vulgar, |
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Sprat |
small fish for eating |
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Staved |
broken into |
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Stiver |
a small coin |
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Subterraneous |
underground |
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Swarthy |
dark colour or complexion |
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Tabor |
a small drum |
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Tawny |
light brown, brownish orange colour |
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Thrifty |
careful, wise with money |
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Transylvania |
region of central Europe surrounded by mountains |
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Trepanned |
bored into a mine shaft, or tunnel |
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Trifling |
acting as if something is not important |
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Vats |
large tubs, or barrels, that store liquid |
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Vermin |
pests such as rats |
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Vesture |
clothes, clothing |
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Vin-de-grave |
type of wine |
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Viper |
type of snake |
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Wretched |
miserable, distressed |
