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(suit of) armour
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metal protective clothing worn by soldiers
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an international observer
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outside, neutral person or body
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inflected
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words have endings to show tense, person, etc.
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legion
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Roman army
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to rout
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to defeat totally
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jester
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person who entertained people in the Middel Ages with jokes
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postulates
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basic principles
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serf
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person working on the land who legally belongs to his master
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feudal
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relating to a social system strictly organised according to rank, typical of e.g. Europe in the Middle Ages
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cart
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open vehicle with two or four wheels and pulled by an animal
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convert
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someone who has taken on a new set of beliefs
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cavalry
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soldiers on horseback
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stagecoach
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covered vehicle pulled by horses that carried passenger and goods on regular routes
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paecekeeping troups
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2.neutral soldiers engaged in keeping the peace in a divided society
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aerial warfare
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fighting a war using aeroplanes
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to besiege
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to attack a place by surrounding it
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credulous
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too willing to believe what you're told
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adherent
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a person who supports a particular idea or party
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galleon
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large sailing ship with three or four masts used in trade and war in the 15th to 18th centuries
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modal verbs
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like: must, could and should
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usher in
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introduce
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diphthongs
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sounds made by combining vowels , such as ae and ei
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chariot
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two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse and used in ancient times for racing and war
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an incendiary device
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bomb ; they may be placed/ set off/ thrown
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Graeco-Latin
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originally from Greek and Latin
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highwayman
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man on horseback who robbed travellers on roads
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bigot
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2.(disapproving) someone with strong unreasonable beliefs who thinks that anyone with other beliefs is wrong
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ingenuous
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trusting sincere, often in a way that seems foolish
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minstrel
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person who entertained people in the Middle Ages with music and poetry
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infantry
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soldiers on foot
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trespass
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go onto someone else's land without permission
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assumption
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unquestioning acceptance that something is true
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consciousness
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awareness
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perjury
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lying under oath (onder eed liggen)
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germ/biological warfare
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using germs (zaden/ kiemen) to cause disease among enemy soldiers or crops
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