Vocab Word Lists 13-15 2nd semester
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- autoplatsy
- Taking a part of the body and transplatning it to another part of the body
- Byzantine
- Applying to the dome style architecture of Byzantine. Istanbul which stands on the site of old Constantinople
- chartreuse
- yellowish green
- donnybrook
- free for all
- Easter Island
- Island off the coast of Chile which contains large statue heads
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fantods
fanlight -
State of nervous irratibility
Half circle window with sash bars - Guy Fawkes Day
- Commemorates failure of Fawks to blow up the King and Parliament on November 5, 1603
- intractable
- Difficult to manage
- ligature
- Thread used by a surgeon to close vessels and ducts
- macron
- Horizontal dash used to indicate a stressed syllable
- minion
- henchman or mercenary
- Mrs. Grundy
- Extremely priggish person alluded to in a play
- Orangeman
- Member of a secret society in North Ireland founded in 1795 to maintain ascendency of Protestant Irish
- Satchel Paige
- American baseball player, first black pitcher
- redolent
- fragrant, suggestive of politics
- round robin
- petition or protect. Double elimination tournament
- smite
- to inflict a heavy blow on
- trivet
- Metal stand used under a hot plate
- Voltaire
- Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire). One of France's greatest philosophers
- Aloe vera
- soathing, moistourizing extract made from the leaves of aloe
- beriberi
- degenerative disease of the nerves
- credenza
- a buffet or a side of a board without legs
- Euphrates
- Major river of the middle east
- Gotham
- nickname for New York City
- hautboy
- oboe
- Inuit
- people of the Arctic or Greenland; eskimos
- jocose
- of a playful joking disposition
- lissome
- Slender and able to bend easily and gracefully
- mauve
- reddish purple
- niveous
- Resembling snow in color
- penuche
- fudge made from brown sugar, butter, milk, and nuts
- Quito
- capital of Ecuador
- regardant
- looking backward in profile
- savant
- wise or scholarly person
- tomnalley
- part of a lobster eaten as a delicacy; lobster's liver
- unduly
- To a great or excesive extent
- xylography
- a wood engraving of an early period
- yurt
- Circular domed portable tent used by nomands of Central Asia
- Zamboni
- Machine sed to clean the ice at a hockey game, by laying a thin layer of water on the ice so it freezes to form a new layer
- Attica
- City state of Athens in ancient Greece. Site of a prison in New York State
- Bannockburn
- Town of central Scotland north east of Glasgow
- chalice
- cup used to administer wine at a Catholic Mass
- denouement
- the solution to a plot
- emarginated
- having margin interrupte by a notch
- explicate
- Clarify the meaning of something
- fortitude
- power to endure pain
- geniculate
- having knee like joints
- heliotrope
- a plant that grows towards or away from sunlight
- ingress
- entrance
- lichen
- any of a varieety of mosslike fungoid plants
- mandrill
- large ferocious African Baboon
- obtrusive
- given to intruding; showy; distracting
- painted lady
- A widely distributed butterfly (Vanessa cardui) having brown, black, and orange markings
- pertussis
- whooping cough
- redress
- Set right or remedy
- saguaro
- giant cactus
- stipple
- mark with dots or a grained pattern
- torque
- Force tht causes rotation
- zepplin
- Dirigible balloon with a cigar shaped bag