Unit 2 Poetry IB
Terms
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- rosette
- rose-resembling ornament or badge. decorative. worn on dress to indicate possessor of honor.
- peony
- garden plant: pink, red, white or creamy.
- isinglass
- transparent gelatin from air bladder of fish.
- gunnel
- upper edge of ship's side
- marl
- mix of clays, Ca and Mg carbonate, shells. used for fertilizer.
- bight
- bend or curve. mainly in shoreline. or wide bay.
- ocher
- orange yellow
- impalpable
- not perceptible to the touch
- gloaming
- twilight
- transclucence
- trasmitting light but with diffusion to eliminate clear images.
- transmutation
- transformed from one element to another by nuclear reaction.
- derivative
- copied or adopted.
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful; extravagant
- columbine
- a plant with five spurred petals; dovelike
- bedlam
- madhouse
- foolscap
- 13x16 paper
- quire
- set of 24 or 25 sheets orrrr 1/20 ream of paper
- Ceres
- Roman goddess of agriculture
- Persephone
- wife of Hades
- obduracy
- hardened against good influence
- arcane
- known only by those having special knowledge
- dissipate
- drive away or dispel
- poignant
- physically and mentally painful, but good for emotion
- misogyny
- hatred of women
- vexed
- irritated
- appliqued
- decorated by cutting pieces and applying to surface
- bullion
- gold or silver important with quantity; lace trimming
- anomalous
- abnormal
- accoutrements
- trappings, distinctions; issued to soldier
- intransigence
- refusal to compromise
- paradigm
- example
- hosannas
- shouts of praise
- cicatrix
- scar tissue on wound