The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Vocabulary Review
Today in class we're going to do a fun vocabulary activity in preparation for the Vocab Quiz on Monday!
Here are the words and definitions to study over the weekend!
- mariners (noun): sailor
- kin (noun): family
- loon (noun): crazy person
- kirk (noun): church
- hoary (adjective): white [hoarfrost: frozen dew that forms a white coarting on a surface]
- albatross (noun): large bird cheifly of the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere; a sonstant worrisome burden; an obstacle to success
- vespers (noun): the sixth of the seven canonical hours; evensong
- fathom (noun): a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters), used principlally in the measurement and specification of marine depths; (verb) to penetrate to the meaning or nature of; comprehend
- to aver (verb): to assert or justify or prove
- gossamer (noun): a soft sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light or flimsy (adjective): sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous
- sedge (noun): grass like plants
- sere (adjective): very dry
- keel (noun): the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached; ship.
- swound (noun/verb): archaic form of swoon [fainting]; also note God's wounds
- rood (noun): cross [from Christianity]
- skiff (noun): a flat bottom, shallow draft boat
- to shrieve (verb): [archaic form of SHRIVE] to hear the confession of and give absolution to
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