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English: Unit 1 Part 4 Terms
English: Unit 1 Part 4 Terms
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12th Grade
09/29/2016

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Assay
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Prove or test
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Adjure
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Request solemnly; appeal to earnestly
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Feigned
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Made a false show of; pretended
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Adroitly
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With physical or mental skill
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Largesse
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Nobility of spirit
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Righteous
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Acting in a just, upright manor; doing what is right
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Entreated
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Made an earnest appeal; pleaded
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Peril
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Exposure to harm or injury
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Interred
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Buried
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Sir Gawain and the Green Night
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Knight takes on another night, chopping of his head. a year later must go back and face the night. faces a test of 3 with the lady of the manor, and he fails to follow the terms of an agreement. the second night fakes out the first two times, and then draws blood the third but doesn’t kill knight one because he has the green girdle on
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Morde d’ Arthur
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Modred takes over kingdom while Arthur is away. Arthur must fight Modred. After the fact, they both kill each other. Bedivere faces a test of 3s, and Arthur tells him to throw excalibur back into the lake. twice bedivere doesn’t obey, but the third time he does and then he realizes why arthur made him throw excalibur away
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