Facts and chat for Brainscape - New words 6

Question 1

aperient

Answer 1

used to relieve constipation

Question 2

accidie

Answer 2

spiritual sloth / apathy

Question 3

aiguilelettes

Answer 3

braided loops hanging from shoulder

Question 4

sepulchre

Answer 4

tomb

Question 5

congeries

Answer 5

dissorderly collection, jumble

Question 6

propinquity

Answer 6

proximity, being close

Question 7

fissiparous

Answer 7

tendency to fall apart

Question 8

hierophant

Answer 8

holy person, interprets signs, called “The Pope” in Tarot cards

Question 9

concupiscence

Answer 9

strong sexual desire

Question 10

campanile

Answer 10

A bell tower

Question 11

lumbago

Answer 11

pain in the muscles and joints of the lower back

Question 12

lyddite

Answer 12

a high explosive containing picric acid, used chiefly by the British during the First World War

Question 13

a person in charge of or working on a barge

Answer 13

bargee

Question 14

mamba

Answer 14

venemous snake

Question 15

threnody

Answer 15

a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead pe

Question 16

pudenda

Answer 16

vulva

Question 17

felucca

Answer 17

felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean

Question 18

Puggaree

Answer 18

a thin muslin scarf tied round a sun helmet so as to hang down over the wearer’s neck and shield it from the sun.

Question 19

tarboosh

Answer 19

fez