Wednesday, December 6 mariner part 3

Coming up: new vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, December 13 (class handout / copy below)
In class: vocabulary quiz; part 3 of Mariner

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Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 13

    1.kin (noun)- one's family and relations.

 2.  kirk (noun)- church (most often used in Scotland)

  3.   tyrannous (adjective)- unjustly severe  (think of a tyrant)

   4.    prow (noun)- the portion of a ship's bow above water.

    5.shroud (noun)- a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial;          a thing that envelops

         6. to aver (verb)- state or assert to be the case.

7       7. furrow (noun)- long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove; note that you may have a furrow (noun) on your brow and you may furrow (verb) your brow

8        8.   agape (adjective) -     agog, wide open, especially with surprise or wonder; gobsmacked

         9.   gossamers (noun)- a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very light, delicate. (think fairy wings)

1      10. spectre-bark (noun)    - ghost ship

         11. vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical hours (times one was required to pray)

 12. skiff (noun)- a flat bottomed boat.