Vocab Word List 1 2nd semster
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- Abominable Snowman
- A mysterious hairy humanoid animal in the Himalaya mountains
- ambiance
- Typical atmosphere or mood of a place; that which surrounds the atmosphere of an environment
- articulate
- To exrpess thoughts, ideas, or feelings coherently. To pronounce something or to speak clearly
- Banyan
- Tree with roots that grown down from the branches ijnto the ground to form secondary trunks. Native to South America
- bugbear
- A continuing source of annoyance or difficulty. Source of obsessive fear; Story of a Goblin that atre children who left their bed.
- Byzantine
- Relating to the Byzantine emperor, architecture, or Eastern Orthodox Church
- Albert Camus
- French novelist and author the pulitzer prize winning novel The Stranger
- carnage
- Widespread and indiscriminant slaughter of human life
- chalice
- metal drinking cap used for serving wine at mass
- colloquial
- appropriate to the spoken language used to create the effect of conversation
- concomitant
- Happening or existing along with or at the same time as something else
- demophobia
- Fear of crowds; agorophobia
- dues ex machine
- Roman drama, God lowered by stage machinery to resolve the plot
- duplicity
- The fact of being deceptive. The state of being double
- endive
- Plant grown for its tightly compact curly leaves used in salads
- Ganymeade
- Trojan prince carred by Zeus to Mount Olympus and named the cup bearer of the Gods
- geognosy
- Part of geology that studies the structure of the Earth
- gyration
- The movement in a circle around a fixed center
- habeas corpus
- A writ issued to bring a detained person to court
- hecatomb
- Public sacrifice and feast in ancient Greece and Rome
- Hypothetical
- Existing as an unproven idea, theory, or possibility
- inadvertence
- Done unintentionally or without thinking
- insular
- Concerned only with local matters. Physically or emotionally removed from others. Of or like an island
- ivory tower
- State or situation in which someone is sheltered frim practicalities of ordinary life
- Juggernaut
- In Hinduism, a form of the god Krishna. During a festival each year his statue is pulled througyh the town on a chariot
- juxtaposition
- Placr two things next to each other for the purpose of comparison
- keelhaul
- Drag someone under the keel of a ship as punishment; a harsh rebuke
- kibitzer
- To interefere or give unwanted advice
- kung fu
- Chinese form of self defense where fluid, circular arm and leg movements are used to attack an opponent
- lapidary
- Engraved in stone or on a gemstone
- lentissimo
- very slowly
- Lusitania
- British ocean liner sunk by a German U-Boat killing 128 Americans and bring the US into World War I
- lyceum
- Building where concerts, lectures, or other public events occur
- madras
- Strong fine cotton or silk used to make curtains
- Maimonides
- Spanish Jewish philosopher. Considered one of the greatest Jewish theologians
- medicant
- a beggar; someone dependent upon charity
- mettle
- Spirited determination; courage or fortitude
- Molly Maguire
- Member of a secret organziation of coal miners who went around terrorizing mine owners in the hope of bettering their working conditions
- muredx
- Invertebrate sea animal with a spiny shell
- Nibeling
- German mythology, dwark who owned a hoard of treasure that was captured by prince Siegfried
- nolo contendera
- PLea by defendant accepting the charges without accepting guilt
- nugatory
- Having no importance or legal force
- ochlophobia
- Fear of crowds or mobs
- oriel
- Bay window projecting from an outside wall supported from the bottom by a bracket
- overweening
- Intolerably arrogant or conceited; excessive self importance
- Paganini
- Intalian violinist and composer
- Paparazzi
- Freelance photographer who follows famous people to get a scandolous story
- per diem
- day by day
- postiche
- Artificial version of something
- predacious
- Animals that hunt, kill, and eat other animals
- procrustean
- Trying to establish conformity, by using any means necessary
- Pygmalion
- Statue brought to life by Aphrodite
- quiescent
- Inactive or at rest
- quisling
- Traitor; someone who collaborates with the occupying force
- quitclaim
- Renunciation of a clean; deed of release