Vocab World Lists 13-15
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- arriviste
- Somebody who has recently become seriosly influential
- bon mot
- A witty comment
- Pablo Cassals
- Spanish cellist considered the greatest of all time
- epithet
- Am insulting word or phrase
- fugacious
- Fleating or passing away quickly
- Johann Gutenberg
- Inventor of the printing press
- Lipizzaner/Lipizzan
- A compact white or grey horse belonging to a breed used in equestran displays
- newspeak
- langauge that is ambiguous and designed to hide the truth
- Patroclus
- Friend of Achillies who was killed by Hector during the Trojan War
- pertinacious
- Resolute in purpose, belief, or action
- plaudit
- Expression of praise or approval
- quiver
- Shake rapidly with small movements
- savant
- A wise or scholarly purpose
- Sally Ride
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- Sinn Fein
- Nationalist Irish Republican Party founded in 1905
- sukiyaki
- Japanese dish consisting of meat, vegetables, noodles cooked in soy sauce
- thole pin
- Small upright wooden peg in the gunwale of a boat
- ubiquitous
- Present everywhere at once or seeming to be
- wassail
- Toast made during festivities
- unguiculate
- Having or resembling nails or claws
- Appaloosa
- Saddle horse with white hair, dark patches, and white rimmed eyes
- bathysiderodromophobia
- Fear of subways or metros
- Chunnel
- Tunnel beneath the English Channel connection France and England by rail
- Emigration Road
- Nickname of the Oregon Trail
- Four Horsemen
- According to the Book of Revelations, the 4 plagues that will destroy the world
- impala
- a large reddish brown antelope
- lethargy
- A state of physical slowness and mental dullness resulting from fatigue
- masticate
- to chew food by grinding teeth
- Mata Hari
- Dutch spy who was a professional dancer in a Paris nightclub, spying for the Germans during WWI
- nomenclature
- A system of names assigned to items in a particular science
- orthography
- The study of established correct spelling
- poinsettia
- a bush with bright red bracts resembling pedals, popular house plant
- potter's field
- Public burial ground for the poor. Comes from the first public burial ground near Jerusalem bought with Judas' bounty
- ream
- Quantity of paper, now usually 500 sheets
- recapitulate
- Repeat stages from the evolution of a species
- reciprocal
- Given or done in return for something else
- reparation
- Compensation for a wrong or to make amends
- soliloquy
- The act of speaking alone, especially to convey a character's thoughts
- veronica
- Cape of a matador
- Xanthus
- Achilles immortal horse
- Albion
- Acnient name for England
- Blondin
- Famous French acrobat and tight rope walker; first man to cross Niagra falls on a tight rope
- calabash
- Large ball shaped fruit of a tropical American tree
- Day of infamy
- Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941
- Fatehr Damien
- Belgian Catholic missionary who ministered the lepor colony of Molokai
- gazebo
- Small, open sided, and slightly elevated building situated in a spot that commands a pleasent view
- ixnay
- nix or to cancel something
- Kwanzaa
- A cultural amd harvest festival celebrated by African Americans
- luminaries
- An object, especially an atmospherical one, that emits light
- mistral
- Powerful cold dry wind that blows in southern France
- parchment
- Yellowish paper made from dried sheepskin/goatskin
- red herring
- Something introduced into a crime or mystery in order to divert attention
- St. Vitus' dance
- Neurological disease where the affected have involuntary movements in their arms and legs; collera
- Shangri-la
- Imaginery and remote fever. Comes from an Imaginery land in Lost Horizon
- tears of Eos
- Eos was the god of the dawn and when here son was killed by Achillies, she wept and her tears are the dew on the morning grass
- Uranus
- Seventh smallest planet in the solar system, and seventh from the sun
- veldt
- Open grass land in southern Africa
- wattle
- Staker or poles interwoven with branches to make walls, roofs, etc
- Andrew Wyeth
- American painter whose realistic canvases depict stark rural scenes
- zygodactyls
- Describes the feet of birds in which two toes face foward and two face backwards