East, West Vocab Quiz
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46 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cuspidor | a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) |
| Neogothic | The reuse of forms of Gothic architecture in the second half of the 19th century and thereafter. |
| Nietzschean | Using this term can refer to a person with either a dark or motivated quality. |
| Couture | high fashion designing and dressmaking |
| Pantaloons | close fitting pants for men |
| Guernica | Spanish town that Germans bombed into ruins, & Pablo Picasso's painting to convey the horrors of the Spanish civil war to a world audience |
| Imprecation | a slanderous accusation |
| Fetish | excessive or irrational devotion to some activity |
| Fulminate | criticize severely |
| Ineffable | defying expression or description |
| Subterranean | underground |
| Cassata | ice cream |
| Miasmal | filled with vapor |
| Crucible | a vessel made of material that does not melt easily |
| Cicatrice | scar formation at sight of healing wound |
| Lasciviousness | lewd, lustful |
| Purdah | a state of seclusion or concealment |
| Kukri | curved short sword with a broad blade |
| Djinni | class of spirits that exercise supernatural powers |
| Vanaspati | h hydrogenated vegetable fat used as a butter substitute in India |
| Bulbul | songbird, probably a nightingale |
| Vellum | fine-grained lambskin, calfskin, kidskin prepared for writing on or for binding books |
| Ossa | bone, orifice |
| Proboscis | any long flexible snout |
| Hippogriff | legendary animal--foreparts of a griffin and a body of a horse |
| Ichthyocentaur | fish/centaur |
| Tergiversation | evasion of straightforward action or clear cut statement |
| Lethe | river in Hades whose waters cause drinkers to forget their past |
| Chimaera | fishes with a tapering like tail |
| Insalubrious | detrimental to health |
| Inculcate | teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| Equanimity | steadiness of mind under stress |
| Sahib | formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India |
| Ululate | emit long loud cries |
| Volition | the act of making a choice |
| Supplicant | one praying humbly for something |
| Interposed | placed between two pieces, intervene |
| Imminence | the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon |
| Lamented | mourned or grieved for |
| Raucous | unpleasantly loud and harsh |
| Somnolent | inclined to or marked by drowsiness |
| Funtoosh | made up word by Salman Rushdie |
| Funereal | suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial |
| Antimony | a metallic element having four allotropic forms |
| Samovar | a metal urn with a spigot at the base |
| Usury | the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest |
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