The Road Vocab Flashcards
Warrant
Responsibility, reason
Granitic
Type of stone
Temporal
Relating to time
Collet
Metal band, or collar, that goes around a bolt
Effigies
Shadows of the past; represent crudely
Discalced
Barefoot
Creedless
Creed=belief; no beliefs, hope, basis of life, value
Sectarian
Relating to a specific group with a set leader
Macadam
Asphalt
Bracken
Forrest, trees, bushes
Rachitic
Disease that effects bones; bowing legs, slender
Palisade
A fence of some kind of stakes
Parsible
Something easier to deal with
Viscera
Intestines, internal organs
Stile
Step for passing over a fence or something in your way
Tableau
A graphic description
Privet
Row of hedges or shrubs
Mendicant
Begging (adjective)
Palimpsest
Something that has been written over, but you can still see through it
Bivouacked
To take a temporary shelter
Shill
A decoy; distraction; a trick
Fey
Doom
Bolus
Mass
Verdigris
Green pigment that forms on copper
Lintel
Beam that supports and lays horizontally
Disinterred
Graves that have been moved
Promontory
Piece of land that sticks out, overlooking water
Sepulcher
A burial place
Clerestory
Outside wall
Bollards
The post and railing on peer
Armatures
Steel supports of building
Isthmus
Strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land
Loess
Dust that is deposited by wind
