Alchemist Vocab Flashcards
Impetus
Encouragement, goad
Disinter
Unbury, reveal
Breastplate
Personal armor covering the chest
Crook
The curved stick used by a Shepard
Geologists
People who study rocks and the layers of rock and dirt
Infidels
Unfaithful ones or nonbelievers
Levanter
A wind that comes from the Easter end of the Mediteranean, near Turkey, which is sometimes called the Levant.
Moorish
Relating to the Moors, the Arab/Berber Muslim people who arrived from Africa and conquered Spain in the 8th century.
Sacristy
A room in a church used to store sacred vessels for communion
Scabbard
The metal case used to hold a sword
Seminary
School, especially one in which students study to become priests
Trajectory
The path of a moving object
Alchemy
- A medieval philosophy and science with the goa, of of changing common metals into gold.
- Finding a universal cure for illness.
- Discovering methods of halting the aging process to prolong life.
Archaeological
Relating to the discovery and preservation of evidence of earlier cultures (buried artifacts)
Bedouins
Nomadic Arab people
Capricious
Given to whimsical decisions, unpredictable
Divination
Telling the future
Elemental
Basic, raw
Esperanto
An artificial language developed to be universal; a combination of the main European languages
Hookah
A water pipe used extensively in Muslim communities; not drug related. Shared activity.
Immersion
Complete dedication or absorption; being out under water or into a new subject
Incredulous
Those who do not believe
Intuitively
Emotionally, or without conscious thought or analysis
Koran
The holy book of the Islamic faith
