Facts and chat for Brainscape - New words 3

Question 1

Sabots

Answer 1

Clogs

Question 2

Ilinx

Answer 2

Joy of spinning around. A kind of play, described by sociologist Roger Caillois, a major figure in game studies. Ilinx creates a temporary disruption of perception, as with vertigo, dizziness, or disorienting changes in direction of movement.

Question 3

démarche

Answer 3

freezes accounts in Jack Ryan; political act

Question 4

aglet

Answer 4

hard tip of shoelaces

Question 5

camarilla

Answer 5

A __ is a group of courtiers or favourites who surround a king or ruler. Usually, they do not hold any office or have any official authority at the royal court but influence their ruler behind the scenes.

Question 6

bernous

Answer 6

a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a hood, usually white in color, worn by the Algerian Berbers

Question 7

effendi

Answer 7

a man of high education or social standing in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country.

Question 8

dagoba

Answer 8

Another word for stupa: a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation

Question 9

Sinhalese

Answer 9

Largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka

Question 10

opalescent

Answer 10

showing many small points of shifting colour against a pale or dark ground; “the dress is embroidered with opalescent sequins”

Question 11

lambent

Answer 11

(of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance. “the magical, lambent light of the north”

Question 12

dhow

Answer 12

traditional sailing ship used in Red Sea and Indian Ocean

Question 13

patamar

Answer 13

sailing vessel used for transporting rice, often found on Malabar Coast

Question 14

settee sail

Answer 14

triangular sail (lateen) with corner cut off

Question 15

lateen

Answer 15

triangular sail

Question 16

cabotage

Answer 16

the transport of goods or passengers between two places in the same country by a transport operator from another country

Question 17

Malabar coast

Answer 17

South west of India (e.g. Kerela) Repeatedly referenced in George Orwell’s political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as the site of a perpetual war between the military forces of Ingsoc and their Eastasian opponents

Question 18

chetty

Answer 18

is a very general term denoting all merchant and trading groups of South India

Question 19

dacoit

Answer 19

(in India or Burma) a member of a band of armed robbers.

Question 20

mephitic

Answer 20

(especially of a gas or vapour) foul-smelling; noxious. “the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered above our heads”