Canterbury Tales Vocabulary
Across
- 2. whose wife has been unfaithful
- 5. describing a visual in words
- 9. someone educated, someone who had studied
- 10. light-hearted, clever, witty short stories
- 11. merchants
- 14. medieval version of modern word "handy"
- 15. Middle English word for "mastery"
- 16. forgiveness of a crime
- 18. a long journey of religious significance
- 20. common name for a clerk
Down
- 1. interpreting a text to make it mean something
- 3. pertaining to the attitudes or writings of Boethius
- 4. inclination, determination
- 6. knowledge gained from texts
- 7. fox an animal with black-tipped feet, tail, and ears
- 8. a petty officer who cites and warns people to arrear in court
- 12. advocacy for the right of women
- 13. misogynistic; negative toward women
- 17. Marie Latin for "Hail Mary"
- 19. someone who writes, particularly someone who writes with "authority"