Page 9 Flashcards
serigraphy
a print made by the silkscreen process
sedulous
persevering
sesterce
a silver coin of ancient Rome
Shakti
wife of a diety
siccative
drying
sinfonietta
a small orchestra, a short symphony
slattern
a slut, an untidy girl
soave
a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy
sobriquet
a nickname
sortilege
sorcery, magic
sthenia
strength
strafe
to reprimand viciously; to attack by airplanes via gunfire
stridulate
to produce a shrill, grating sound by rubbing together certain parts of the body
strontium
a bivalent metallic element
subito
suddenly
sudatorium
a hot-air bath to induce sweat
sycophant
a self-seeking flatterer
tamarind
the pod of a large, tropical tree containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food
tarradiddle, taradiddle
a small lie
Tecumseh
American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe
tenebrific
producing darkness
tetramerous
consisting of or divided into four parts
thaumaturge
a magician
thrasonical
boastful
thyrsus
a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches
titivate
to make one smart or spruce up
tocsin
a bell used to sound an alarm
traducianism
the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body
transcendentalism
philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical
transhumance
the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them
