Henry Tudor Flashcards
Cerulean
Also spelled caerulean, is a shade of blue ranging between azure and a darker sky blue.
The first recorded use of cerulean as a colour name in Englishwas in 1590.[1] The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, “dark blue, blue, or blue-green”, which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, “heaven, sky”.[2]
Orgulous
1.(foll by of, an infinitive, or a clause)
pleased or satisfied, as with oneself, one’s possessions, achievements, etc, or with another person, his or her achievements, qualities, etc
2.feeling honoured or gratified by or as if by some distinction
3.having an inordinately high opinion of oneself; arrogant or haughty
sacerdotal
adjective
relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly.
THEOLOGY
relating to or denoting a doctrine which ascribes sacrificial functions and spiritual or supernatural powers to ordained priests.
Sophistry
plural noun: sophistries
The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
“trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry”
a fallacious argument.
plural noun: sophistries
Declivity
An area that is lower than surrounding areas:
‘At the bottom of the field was a wooded declivity’.
If you’re standing at the top of a hill looking down to the bottom, you’re staring down a declivity, a downward slope of any kind.
The word declivity comes from the Latin words de, which means “down,” and clivus, which means “slope.” If you’re at the bottom of the hill looking up, you’ll see the opposite of a declivity. From that position you’ll be looking at an acclivity, an upward slope.
Ostensible
- Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
- Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real). ‘The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day’.
Semiotics
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of sign process (semiosis), which is any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign.
Glyptic
Of or concerning carving or engraving.
‘In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.’
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Origin
Early 19th century from French glyptique or Greek gluptikos, from gluptēs ‘carver’, from gluphein ‘carve’.
Cogitable
Able to be grasped by the mind, conceivable.
Eudemonism
A system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood that good actions will produce happiness
Inamorata
A person’s female lover
Frowsy
Scruffy and neglected in appearance
sal volatile
/ˌsal vəˈlatɪli/
noun
1. a scented solution of ammonium carbonate in alcohol, used as smelling salts.
Fugacious
Tending to disappear, fleeting
She was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth
Boondoggle
A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.
an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle
Event Horizon
It is defined as “the point of no return”, i.e., the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear. Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
One oxymoron example is “deafening silence,” which describes a silence that is so overpowering it almost feels deafening, or extremely loud—just as an actual sound would. Oxymorons are often used in everyday conversation and in a breadth of writing, such as literature, poetry, and songwriting.22 Jul 2019
Germane
relevant to a subject under consideration i.e. It was germane to the discussion on penguins
Catch Fart
A footboy; so called from such servants
commonly following close behind their master or mistress.
Usufruct
Usufruct (/ˈjuːzjuːfrʌkt/)[1] is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed jurisdictions that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus:
Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed by another, directly and without altering it. Roman Law
Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.
Petrichor
Is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek petra, “rock”
Consanguinity
A person descended from the same ancestor as others.
Vespertine
Relating to or occurring in the evening
Cachinnate
To laugh loudly in an unrestrained way
Apodictic
Clearly established or beyond dispute
Stridulate
Insects making a shrill sound by rubbing lega, wings or other parts of their bodies
Grandiloquent
Pompous or extravagant in language, style or manner, talking to impress.
Touchstone
A piece of fine grained schist or jasper formally used for testing alloys of gold, by observing the colour of the mark which they made on it
Cant
The jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. A secret language to belittle, exclude or degrade others not of the religion, group or clique.
Koan
A paradoxical anecdote or riddle. Used in Zen to provoke great doubt and test a student’s progress.
Palliate
To make less severe without removing the cause.
Propinquity
The state of being close to someone or something i.e. in physical proximity
Progressionist
- Biology - a supporter of the theory that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form.
- An advocate of or believer in political or social progress.
Tergiversate
- make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate.”the more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the reporters for an interview”
- change one’s loyalties; abandon a belief or principle.
Cat’s Paw
A person used by another, to carry out an unpleasant, dangerous or treacherous act or task
Metanoia
A complete change of heart or mind in one’s life, possibly of a spiritual or penitent nature
