General Flashcards
progenitor
n.
1. an ancestor related by birth;
2. orginator; a person or thing that first indicates direction, orginates s’thing, or serves as a model; predesso; precursor; an orginator or founder of a future development.
Simply: Ancestor or precursor of sthing
scansion
- the analysis of the meter in lines of poetry; the metrical analysis of verse.
Rhythmical structure?
meter (music)
the rhythmic element in music; the arrangement of words in poetic rhymes.
narcissism
excessive love or admiration for oneself (vanity)
caveat
noun.
a warning or caution;
admonition:
cave canem Literally “Beware of the dog”
turnkey
fully equipped;
ready to go into operation:
Used by Corey Koberg to describe the pre-built tags in GTM.
Whipping boy
A whipping boy was a boy educated alongside a prince (or boy monarch) in early modern Europe, who received corporal punishment for the prince’s transgressions in his presence. The prince was not punished himself because his royal status exceeded that of his tutor; seeing a friend punished would provide an equivalent motivation not to repeat the offence.
An archaic proverb which captures a similar idea is “to beat a dog before a lion.”
Whipping was a common punishment of tutors at that time. There is little contemporary evidence for the existence of whipping boys, and evidence that some princes were indeed whipped by their tutors, although Nicholas Orme suggests that nobles might have been beaten less often than other pupils. Some historians regard whipping boys as entirely mythical; others suggest they applied only in the case of a boy king, protected by divine right, and not to mere princes.
In current English, a “whipping boy” is a metaphor which may have a similar meaning to scapegoat, fall guy, or sacrificial lamb; alternatively it may mean a perennial loser or a victim of group bullying.
What is a palindrome?
a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the samebackwardsasforwards, e.g.madamornurses run.
eureka
exclamation
exclamation:eureka;plural noun:eurekas
a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds ordiscoverssomething.
“The answer hit me. ‘Eureka!’ I cried”
said to have been uttered by **** when he hit upon a method of determining the purity of gold. The noun dates from the early 20th century.
Archimedes
how do you spell the word beginning with ‘f’ that express when you feel contented with how you are living your life?
Fulfillment
Ful-fill-ment
So although we are talking about being ‘full’, we are not completely ‘full’ of ‘f’s as, the prefix ‘Ful’ has lost and ‘f’ from the word ‘Full’.
