English 9-10
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- aegis
- protection, sponsorship
- coruscate
- to sparkle, to give forth flashes of light
- quintessence
- a thing in its purest and most concentrated form
- nepotism
- the practice of doling out favors based on blood relationships
- rue
- "to regret" or "to repent"
- ephermal
- short-lived
- sub rosa
- "privately, confidentially, in secret"
- recondite
- not easily understood, abstruse, obscure
- pogrom
- an organized massacre of defenseless people
- poignant
- "to sting", painfully moving
- anachronism
- a person or thing which is chronologically out of palce
- poltergeist
- a noisy, mischevious ghost held responsible for unexplained rappings
- histrionic
- artificial in behavior or speech
- bellwether
- leading, a leader
- banal
- devoid of freshness or originality
- exude
- to ooze out, to display abundantly
- catholic
- broad in sympathetic tastes or interests
- pontiff
- the pope, the spiritual leader of the catholic church
- brogue
- an Irish dialect
- idiosyncracy
- a psychological characteristiac peculiar to an individual