Vocab Word List 10-12
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- Allure
- The power to attract; enticement
- blandishment
- coaxing or cajolery by flattery
- concord
- harmony; peace
- Coquette
- a flirt
- congenial
- Agreeable; pleasent; sympathetic
- dalliance
- frivolous spending of time
- Dulcinea
- Mistress of Don Quixjote
- enamored
- Consumed by love
- fidelity
- faithfulness or loyalty
- fervent
- earnest or ardent for a cause
- indelible
- not capable of being deleted or obliterated
- lothario
- a man who seduces a woman
- myrtle
- any of various evergreen plants
- oscular
- the mouth like opening of a sponge to expel water
- pine
- To grieve or languish; to long for
- sentient
- having the power or feeling of perception
- smitten
- in live with; enamored
- tryst
- an appointed meeting; especially between two lovers
- uxorious
- excessively fond of ones wife
- woo
- seek the favor of someone or something
- aglet
- Tag or sheath used to pass the shoe laces through the eyelet holes
- balclava
- wool hood covering the neck and headl; worn mainly by skiers
- cruciverbalist
- Constructor of crossword puzzles
- Dorthrea Dix
- U.S journalist who pushed for prison and insane asylum reform
- funambulist
- one who performs on a tight rope
- headcheese
- Sausage or jellied meat loaf of chopped parts of head meat
- invidious
- tending to arouse animosity or resentment
- jai alai
- Court game where players use a basket strapped to the wrist to propel a ball
- kinesiology
- The study of the anatomy and physiology of human movement
- limicolous
- Living in mud
- marinara
- Served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, garlic, and spices
- monophagus
- eating only one kind of food
- nyctophobia
- fear of the dark
- Frederick Olmstead
- Famous designer of National Parks and the Capitol buildign
- pampa
- Grassland in South America
- pyre
- Pile of combusitbles used for cremating a corpse
- rataouille
- Vegetable stew made from eggplant, zucchini, etc
- Satyagraha
- The policy of non-violent resistance pioneered by Ghandi in India
- tiramisu
- rum cake layered with cheese
- vespiary
- colony of wasps
- agora
- place of congregation in ancient Greece; the market place
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catgut
cat's-paw
catwalk -
Thin tough cord made from animal intestines
Person used by another as a dupe
Narrow elevated walkway - deoxribonucleicacid
- Genetic material which can self replicate and contains and contains all hereditary genes
- billinsgate
- foul abusive language
- expostulate
- to reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade
- foxglove
- any of several herbs of the genus Digitalis
- geniality
- Of a friendly or pleasent manner or disposition
- heliotropism
- Growth of a plant towards or away from sunlight
- isinglass
- Thin transparent sheets of Mica
- kumquat
- small, edible, orange like fruit
- lyrebird
- Either of 2 Australian birds genus Menusa
- morality play
- 15th century play which depicts the struggle of good versus evil
- ocelot
- nocturnal wild cat of South America with a gray or yellow coat and black spots.
- pandowdy
- Sliced fruit baked with sugar and spices in a deep dish
- piazza
- Public square with room for pedestrians in Italy
- rouleau
- Small roll of coins wrapped in paper
- sexagenarian
- Sixty year old
- tonsure
- Shaving of the head to become a monk
- usury
- Lending of money with an exorbonent amount of interest
- wheyfaced
- having a pale or white face