Vocab Word lists 4-6 2
Terms
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- radiology
- Branch of medicine that uses X rays to diagnose diseases
- red herring
- Something introduced into in order to divert attention away from the real issue
- risible
- Causing laughter
- rueful
- Feeling, showing, or causing regret
- Sanch Panza
- Don Quixote's realistic peasent squire
- sarcophagus
- Ancient stone or marble coffin used by the Ancient Egyptians
- shroud
- Something that conceals someone or something; cloth for burial
- solicitous
- Expressing an attitude of concern or consideration
- succor
- Relief for somebody in a difficult situation
- surrealism
- Early 20th century art movement using fantastic images and juxtaposing ideas that often contradict each other. Its greatest master was Salvador Dali
- symbiosis
- a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship
- Tantalus
- Greek king who was punished by not being able to eat or drink
- tibia
- Inner and larger of the two bones in the lower leg
- travail
- Work that involves hard physical effort over a long period of time
- trenchant
- Direct, incisive, and deliberately hurtful
- udometer
- Gauge for measuring rain fall
- Underground Railroad
- Secret abolitionist organization that helped southern slaves escape to the north and to Canada
- unmitigated
- Not lessened or eased in any way
- uxorious
- A man who is excessively devoted to his wife
- Valhall
- Great Hall in Norse Mythology, where the great warriors go after their death
- vagary
- Capricious or extravagent in thought or action
- valetudinarian
- Person excessively concerned with poor health
- vampirism
- Belief in or behavior of a vampire, blood sucking
- vanguard
- Foremost units of an advancing army; leaders of a social movement
- Veda
- One of the Hindhu holy scriptures
- venue
- Scene of a crime; jurisdiction of a court
- veronica
- Classic move in bull fighting
- vermiculate
- To ornament with worm eaten makings
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Italian explorer of the South American coast, the Americas are named for him
- vertiginous
- Turning around, whirling, unstable
- virigule
- Diagonal mark used to separate alternatives
- viridity
- The quality or condition of being green
- vituperate
- To rebuke or citicize harshly or abusively
- Volant
- Flying or capable of flying
- Vulcan
- The of fire in Roman mythology
- wampum
- Small beads strung together to form Native American belts
- Watergate
- A hotel in D.C that was the Democratic headquarters in 1972, that was broken into for political purposes by the Nixon administration
- Waterloo
- Battle in Belgium where Napoleon was decisively defeated by the Fourth Coalition
- Welsh corgi
- Welsh dog
- wet-land
- Lowland area, marsh, saturated with moisture
- whelp
- To give birth to puppies; or a youth or a child
- Whig/Tory
- Political parties in England. The former being liberal and supporters of the American revolution. The latter being conservative and opponents of the revolution
- whimsical
- Full of sudden turns
- white noise
- A mixture of sound waves over a wide frequency range and spectrum
- The Wilderness
- A series of battles in northern Viriginia where Lee and Grant fought
- Oscar Wilde
- Irish author who wrote the Importance of Being Earnest
- windward
- Toward the wind; side from which the wind blows
- wizened
- dried up, shriveled up
- Andrew Wyeth
- American painter of rural scenes
- xenogamy
- Cross pollination
- Xerxes
- Persian emperor who invaded Greece and destroyed Athens before being defeated by the Greeks at Thermopolye
- xlyotamy
- Examination of wood under a microscope
- yuan
- Unit of currency in China
- Yucatan
- A peninsula in southern Mexico and northern Latin America
- zareba
- Campsite prtected by an enclosure of brush
- zoography
- Biological description of animals and their habitats
- zootechny
- Domestication of animals
- zoolatry
- Worship of animals
- zygodactyls
- Birds who have two toes pointing foward and backwards, i.e the parrot
- zwieback
- Twice baked bread given to infants to teath on