Question

Archaic words are those that are no longer used in a language, but sometimes their usage adds a historical or old-times flavour to a piece of writing.

Examples:

• behold – look
• afeared – frightened
• forsooth – indeed
• hither – this place

Now find out some archaic words from your mother tongue or another language that you are proficient in and write down at least ten of them, and against each, their modern equivalent and meaning in English.

Archaic Language
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Answer 1

Archaic Language
	Archaic Word	Modern Equivalent	Meaning in English
1.	shrive	forgive	(of a priest)  absolve (a person making a confession)
2.	slay	murder	kill in a violent
3.	smite	knock, bash	defeat or conquer
4.	sooth	factuality, authenticity	truth
5.	steed	pony	a horse
6.	wondrous	amazing, awesome	wonderful
7.	yonder	beyond	over there
8.	pate	head, crown	a person's head
9.	nigh	next door, proximate	near
10.	knave	villain, rogue	a dishonest man