Classic Vocab Lesson 4
Terms
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- quadrille
- a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
- bicameral
- composed of two legislative bodies
- octave
- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- triumvirate
- government by three persons who share authority and responsibility
- octoroon
- person of one-eighth black ancestry
- mile
- a footrace extending one mile, a unit of length equal to 1760 yards
- trinity
- three people considered as a unit
- sextet
- a musical composition written for six performers
- bicentennial
- the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
- decimate
- kill (usually one out of ten or every tenth man); destroy or kill a large part of
- September
- the month following August and preceding October
- septennial
- Recurring every seven years.
- centipede
- chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs
- unicorn
- an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
- millimeter
- a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter
- quintet
- a musical composition for five performers
- cent
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- quintuplets
- five offspring born at once
- quarter
- divide into quarters
- December
- the last (12th) month of the year
- dual
- a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
- decimal
- a number in the decimal system
- sextuplets
- six offspring born at once
- biceps
- any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)
- nonagenarian
- someone whose age is in the nineties
- bicycle
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- octant
- 1. the eighth part of a circle. 2. Mathematics. any of the eight parts into which three mutually perpendicular planes divide space. 3. an instrument having an arc of 24°, used by navigators for measuring angles up to 90°. 4. the position of one heavenly body when 45° distant from another.
- dualism
- the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
- triple
- increase threefold
- decade
- a period of 10 years
- nonagon
- a nine-sided polygon
- unanimous
- in complete agreement
- universal
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- century
- 100 years
- unity
- the quality of being united into one
- duplicate
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- trivial
- (informal terms) small and of little importance