lilac” comes from the Persian word Meaning Flower Flashcards
the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of about 8.5 million. Iran has been around a really long time and Tehran is actually the country’s 31st national capital.
Tehran
Capital of Iran
Dentists warn against chewing ice as it can crack the teeth and damage this hard outer layer that covers them
Enamel
The great sphinx of this city stands near the great pyramid
Giza
It can be exhausting rooting for this type of protagonist who lacks conventional
Merits like ignatius Riley
Anti hero
From Latin for play on words it’s an indirect or implied reference
Illusion
A pen for livestock
Corral
A couple can get a divorce based on these differences when they can’t agree on much
Irreconcilable
This bird of Australia is sometimes called the bushman’s clock since it’s heard early in the morning and at sunset
Kookaburra
From Latin for talkative it can mean given to excessive talk about tribal matters
Garrulous
The worlds parading seaweed extract it’s used in chocolate milk to keep the chocolate in suspension
Carrageenan
C
Kar uh geen in
Rubies and sapphires are varieties of this mineral the hardest known after this hardest one
Corundum
Diamond hardest
Hardening of the arteries is also known by this 7 syllable medical word
Arteriosclerosis
R tear e o sck luh row sis
Let’s walk over to this word describing something ordinary or commonplace
Pedestrian
Epic based in part on his “The Hidden Fortress” :
STAR WARS
“The Hidden Fortress” is a 1958 Japanese adventure film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The main characters are two peasants escorting a man and a woman across enemy lines. The peasants do not realize that the man is a general, and the woman a princess. George Lucas tells us that he was heavily influenced by “The Hidden Fortress” when he wrote his epic movie “Star Wars”. Kurosawa’s two peasants map into the C-3PO and R2-D2 characters in “Star Wars”, and Leia is the princess in disguise.
This is a large, dark purple, almond-shaped olive that is perhaps the most common table olive from Greece.
Kalamata olive
It is named for the city of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese, which is at the center of the region where the olive variety is grown. Even though the EU reserves the name “kalamata” for only those olives grown in the region, we can buy kalamata olives grown elsewhere, from California for example.
