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Alchemist Vocab Flashcards

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Impetus

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Encouragement, goad

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Disinter

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Unbury, reveal

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Breastplate

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Personal armor covering the chest

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Crook

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The curved stick used by a Shepard

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Geologists

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People who study rocks and the layers of rock and dirt

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Infidels

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Unfaithful ones or nonbelievers

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Levanter

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A wind that comes from the Easter end of the Mediteranean, near Turkey, which is sometimes called the Levant.

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Moorish

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Relating to the Moors, the Arab/Berber Muslim people who arrived from Africa and conquered Spain in the 8th century.

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Sacristy

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A room in a church used to store sacred vessels for communion

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Scabbard

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The metal case used to hold a sword

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Seminary

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School, especially one in which students study to become priests

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Trajectory

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The path of a moving object

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Alchemy

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  • 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.
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Archaeological

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Relating to the discovery and preservation of evidence of earlier cultures (buried artifacts)

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Bedouins

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Nomadic Arab people

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Capricious

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Given to whimsical decisions, unpredictable

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Divination

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Telling the future

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Elemental

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Basic, raw

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Esperanto

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An artificial language developed to be universal; a combination of the main European languages

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Hookah

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A water pipe used extensively in Muslim communities; not drug related. Shared activity.

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Immersion

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Complete dedication or absorption; being out under water or into a new subject

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Incredulous

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Those who do not believe

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Intuitively

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Emotionally, or without conscious thought or analysis

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Koran

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The holy book of the Islamic faith

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Manifestation

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Physical form

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Mecca

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The holy city of Islam, whereas faithful Muslims go in pilgrimage; located in Saudi Arabia

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Nocturnal

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Relating to or active during the night

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Nostalgia

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Longing for the past

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Obscure

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With hidden meanings, unclear, mysterious

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Purification

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Making clean or holy

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Ramadan

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A month of prayer and fasting observed by Muslims

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Sentinel

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Guard

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Surveillance

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Studying an area for people or danger

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Astride

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Mounted on a horse or other animal

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Genies

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Spirits or supernatural beings capable of taking on human forms

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Habituated

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Accustomed to

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Imperceptibly

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Unable to be perceived

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Melancholy

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Sad

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Prognostications

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Predictions; statements telling of the future

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Santiago Matamoros

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Patron saint of Spain, famous for killing Moors

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Scabbard

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Case for a sword

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Scimitars

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Very sharp knives with curved blades

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Seer

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One who can see the future

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Traitorous

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Able to commit treason

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Venom

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Posion

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Abraded

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Scratched, cut

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Coptic

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An ancient Egyptian sect of Christians who believe that Christ was completely divine, not partly human and partly divine.

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Luminous

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Glowing

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Scarab

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A beetle used in Egyptian art as a symbol of the after life or of God; seen as omens

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Simon

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A wind- borne sand storm

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Sirocco

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A wind that blows from the oceans over the land, bearing moisture

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Conquistador

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Spanish solider so named because they conquered their enemies

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