Vocab Word Lists 10-12
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- Susan B. Anthony
- Women's Rights leader in the 19th and early 20th century who fought for women's suffrage; one of the leading American Feminists
- Bipolar Disorder
- Psychiatric disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, i.e. depression to euphoria
- Chicanery
- Deception or trickery, especially by manipulating language
- Donner Pass
- Pass in the Sierra Nevada in Northeast California named for the Donner Party of migrants who resorted cannibalism after being trapped in the mountains
- Deleterious
- Having a harmful effect on someone or something
- Fauvism
- Pre 20th century art movement in painting, marked by bold distorted forms and vivid colors
- hegira
- Mass departure or emigration; Flight of Muhammed to Medina from Mecca
- Incontrovertible
- Certain, undeniable, and not open to question
- Joie de Vivre
- Energy and love of life
- Keystone State
- Pennsylvania, because it was the central state of the Union
- Laissez faire
- The capitalists principle that the economy works best with no government interference or regulation
- lugubrious
- Extremely morunful, sad, or gloomy especially to an exaggerated degree
- miasma
- Harmful or poisonous fumes caused by burning or decaying matter
- okra
- A green seed pod cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- pecuniary
- Of money or relating money; requiring payment of money
- quince
- An apple shaped yellow fruit only edible when cooked
- quinsy
- Severe inflammation of the threat near the tonsils
- spigot
- indoor faucet
- xenophobe
- Person who is afraid of foreigners or foreign customs
- zeugma
- Construction in which a word is applied to two different situations that are not the same
- aperture
- An adjustible opening in a camera that allows light to pass through a lens
- bocce/bocci/boccie
- Italian game similar to lawn bowling
- Demosthenes
- Greek orator whose reputation is based on Phillipes, a series of orations exhorting Athens against Phillip of Macedon
- Elysium
- In Green mythology, the home of the blessed after death
- Gibraltar
- British dependency south of Spain, which occuppies the strategic position at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea
- iridescent
- Having rainbow colors that appear to move as the angle changes
- jodhpurs
- Riding breeches that are wide at the hips and narrow at the calves with reinforced patches at the knee and thigh
- menorah
- Ceremonial candleholder consisting of a central stem surrounded by eight curved branches, used in the Jewish temple and as the emblem of Judaism
- Joyce Carol Oates
- American writer whose works deail with love and violence in American society
- passion play
- Play that details the suffering and crucifixtion of Jesus Christ
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- British Pirate executed by James I who made the last smoke famous; he also helped colonize Virginia and introduce tobacco to Europe
- saffron
- Deep orange colored stigmas of a type of crocus sometimes ground powder
- spoonerism
- Accidental transposition of initial consonant sounds or parts of words
- tangerine
- Citrus fruit with easily peeled orange skin and a sweet taste
- vehement
- Expressed or showing conviction or intense feelings
- War of Jenkins' Ear
- Struggle between Spain and England resulting in involvement in the of the Austrian War of Succession
- Xanthippe
- Wife of Socrates
- Yggdrasil
- In Norse mythology; Great Ash tree that overshadows the world linking Heaven, Earth, and Hell together
- "You're pulling my leg"
- Play a joke or tease
- zob
- Game played by British Naval officers to determine who bought drinks
- arras
- A tapestry used as a hanging screen
- beignet
- Small pice of seafood covered in batter and deep fried
- Caliban
- The slave in the Tempest
- dingo
- Australian wild dog with a reddish brown coat
- Flying Dutchman
- Spectral ship that appears in storms off of the Cape of Good Hope
- hardtack
- Hard unsalted bread or biscuit formerly eaten aboard ships as a military ration
- jonquil
- Variety of Narcissus
- Kow tow
- To kneel and touch forehead to the ground as a sign of deep respect
- macadam
- Smooth hard road surface made from small pieces of crushed stone
- otorhinolaryngologist
- ear, nose, and throat doctor
- plankton
- Mass of tiny animals and plants floating in the sea eaten by fish
- quintessence
- The purest most perfect example of something
- reggae
- Popular music originally from Jamaca
- salmonellosis
- Food poisoning caused by infection with salmonella
- thersitical
- Book that lists words, synonyms and antonyms
- virago
- Offensive term implying that a woman is violent in her temperment and behavior
- wall-eyed
- One or both eyes has an unusually large white part
- xyst
- Long walkway with a roof supported by pillars
- Yersinia pestis
- a bacteria that causes the Black Plague
- zyzzyva
- Any various of tropical American weavils of the genes zyzzyva