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Facts and chat for Brainscape - New Words 7 Aug 2019 Flashcards

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ghyll

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Wooded ravine

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chamois

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Soft leather

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Tumulus

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Burial mound

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Ogive

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Gothic arch

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5
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Tureen

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A soup dish

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6
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Osculating

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From latin for “kiss”, bring into close contact

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7
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Styptic

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Styptic substances stop bleeding

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Rutabaga

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Swede vegetable

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Vitreous

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Like glass, e.g. “the vitreous lensing effects of gin”

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Arugular

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rocket salad leaf

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Ebrade

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scrape or wear away by friction or erosion; “the cloud cover was ebraded”

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12
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Meliorism

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the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

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Missal

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Book of prayers for Catholic mass

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Mufti

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Civilian clothes for soldiers

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15
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Cabriolet

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Cabriolet - 2 person horse drawn carriage with folding roof

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Palfrey

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Palfrey - a docile horse used for ordinary riding, especially by women

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Metics

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Class between aristocracy and slaves. Aristotle was a metic.

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Caries

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Holes in teeth

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19
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Imago

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Adult insect

20
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Chignon

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Hairstyle, like a bun

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Fichu

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Kind of shawl around the neck

22
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Beadle

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Minor church official

23
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Stertorously

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Heavy and laboured breathing

24
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Eidetic

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Vivid memory, like you can actually see it in your mind. “His memory of the screenplay was almost eidetic”

25
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Granadilla

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Another word for passion fruit

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Tilapia

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White fish, eaten in Africa

27
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Lanolin

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Oil from wool

28
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Terpsichorean

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Relating to dance. Terpsichore was the muse of dancing.

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Tamar

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River that separates Devon and Cornwall

30
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Pipet

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Song bird

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In hock

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Technically it means pawned

32
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Flunky

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Liveried footman

33
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Staffa

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Island where Fingal’s cave is to be found

34
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Male duck

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Drake

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Cadenza

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Virtuoso violin bit

36
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Egret

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White heron

37
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Dewar

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Low temperature flask

38
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Emend

A

Edit text

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Rille

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Fissue on the moon

40
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Gesso

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Plaster used by artists

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Askari

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East African soldier

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Imamate

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Leadership (as in ‘imam’)

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Annular

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Ring-shaped

44
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Cavatina

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Simple operatic aria

45
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Dissipation

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a descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation

46
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Trefoil

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Three leafed design. E.g. recycling sign

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