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Words from 'Rani Abbakka'
Learn the words of rule and war from the Rani Abbakka comic.
The Rani Abbakka comic uses words of rule and war. Learn them in groups:
Power:
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vassal | a state controlled by a stronger country, made to pay it money |
| sovereign country | one whose government has complete authority |
| tribute | the payment a vassal makes |
| coronation | the ceremony of crowning a king or queen |
| successor | the person who comes next (Abbakka was her mother's daughter and successor) |
Alliance: a league is a partnership (her husband feared seeming in league with her); an envoy is a messenger sent on someone's behalf.
Anger and action:
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wrath | extreme anger |
| seize | grab suddenly or by force |
| rage | happen violently ("the battle raged") |
| apprehended | caught, captured |
| avenge | take revenge for something |
Character: resolve (noun) = determination; dauntless = fearless; rash = acting without thinking of the results (what her husband called her decision, and what the story proves wrong!).
Careful with decisive: of a person, it means good at making decisions; of a battle ("the decisive war"), it means the one that settles everything. Both senses fit this story.
Two phrases: a laughing-stock is someone everyone laughs at (what the governor feared); to have the last laugh is to win in the end after seeming to lose (what Ribero promised, and didn't get!).
Read the words in order and they tell the story: vassal, tribute, coronation, successor, rash, sovereign, league, wrath, seize, resolve, apprehended, avenge, raged, dauntless, decisive.
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