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  1. siege
    the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
  2. liege
    a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
  3. vassal
    a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
  4. plagiarise
    take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
  5. Earl
  6. undertaking
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  7. abbey
    a monastery ruled by an abbot
  8. descend
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  9. relic
    an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
  10. metaphor
    a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
  11. grudging
    petty or reluctant in giving or spending
  12. adduce
    advance evidence for
  13. abiding
    unceasing
  14. snobbish
    befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
  15. pontifex
    a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome
  16. pious
    having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
  17. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  18. indulge
    yield (to); give satisfaction to