George Tudor Flashcards
Inchmeal
By inches, little by little
Censorious
Severely critical of others
Eudaemonia
Good spirit, conducive to happiness, welfare
Chaffer
Haggle or bargain about the agreement and price of something. Old and Middle English and Norse.
Pellucid
easily understood, clear, translucently clear
Vitiate
Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something
incondite
badly put together, badly constructed crude, e.g. incondite prose.
Chiliad
a group of a thousand things
Peripeteia
a sudden change of circumstances or reversal of fortune especially in a literary work’s narrative
Habiliment
clothing
Dubitability, Dubitable
A belief or conclusion open to doubt
Indubitably
Impossible, no doubt, unquestionably
concomitant
A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.
Circumspect
Wary and unwilling to take risks, cautious.
Sublime
Of great excellence or beauty. Exalted, supreme.
Rectitude
Morally correct behaviour of thinking, righteousness
Apophthegm
A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism.
“the apophthegm ‘tomorrow is another day’”
Hagiography
A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios ‘holy’, and -γραφία, -graphia ‘writing’)[1] is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world’s religions.
Flocculent
Having or resembling tufts of wool
Kennings
A kenning (Modern Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English poetry. They continued to be a feature of Icelandic poetry (including rímur) for centuries, together with the closely related heiti.
Oar-steed = ship
Encaustic
Encaustic is an ancient painting method in which wax and pigment are fused onto a surface with heat.
