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27 Cards in this Set
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laments
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to morn
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loathsome
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arousing loathing
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murky
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dark or gloomy
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pilgrimage
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a journey to a sacred place
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reparations
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to act or process of repairing
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reprisals
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the forcible seizure of an enimys goods
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sinews
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vigorous strength
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solace
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confronting in sorrow
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taut
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pulled or drawn tight
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vexed
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to irritate or annoy
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the ancestor of english is...
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proto-indo European
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speakers of old english migrated over ...
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Europe and Asia
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The Anglo Saxon Language is a distant realative of...
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English
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The development of english was influenced by..
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Latin
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our basic vocab still has many
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viking words
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old english grammer differs from Modern English becuase...
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OE depends mainly on word form
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Anglo-Saxons scribes kept writtien records in a script learned from
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Celtic missionaries
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The influence of the church anglo-saxon times is seen that most of writing was done in
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Latin
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OE has given us
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basic vocab
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around the year 1000 OE pronunciation changed when...
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distant vowel sounds at the end of words dropped
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through spelling errors in manuscript, we know about
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the trend toward merging unstressed vowel sounds
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gender married languages was changed in Middel English by...
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dropping gender endings
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as middel englsih evolved from OE it used ...
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fewer endings to show plurals
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middle english indicated meaning through...
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word order
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the______ had a lasting consequence for the development of english
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norman conquest
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under ________ rule, middle english became the language of the common people
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Norman
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english was bilinged for about
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300 years
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