Alice Vocab Flashcards
Beseech
To ask urgently
Frumenty
Old fashioned breakfast dish of wheat milk sugar and cinnamon
Tipple
An alcoholic beverage; to drink alcohol habitually
Cravat
A band or scarf worn around the neck
Gyre
Whirl , gyrate
Saunter
To walk along in a slow and relaxed manner
Vex
To make someone frustrated or annoyed especially with trivial matters
Hookah
Water pipe
Caucus
A closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party to select candidates
Clamour
A loud continuous noise
Gimbal
A mechanism for keeping an instrument horizontal while in a moving vessel
Provoke
To stimulate or aggravate someone to get an emotional reaction
Obstinacy
Stubbornness
Quadrille
A dance for 4 couples who each form one side of a square
Platitudes
Pleasant but trite sayings
Welter
Move in a turbulent manner
Lory
Any of numerous parrots
Impertinent
Rude
Languid
Sluggish or slow
Livery
Special uniform
Antipathies
A strong feeling of dislike
Will-o’-the-wisp
Misleading goal or hope
Sally
Witty remark
Griffin
An animal that is half eagle and half lion