the scarlet Ibis Flashcards
Rank
Status
Clove
Flower on a tree,
Red flower,
A juncture where to things meet. The joining of multiple things
Untenanted
Uninhibited
unoccupied
Grindstone
a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
Caul
A caul is a membrane or thin piece of skin that sometimes covers a newborn baby’s head. The caul is part of the anmniotic sac that protects a fetus before birth.
Most mammals are enclosed within a protective membrane before they’re born, and when part of this membrane is attached to a newborn, it’s called a caul. Possibly because it’s so rare for a baby to be born with this caul covering his or her head, it’s been considered good luck since medieval times. The word once referred to a woman’s close-fitting hat, from the French word cale, “cap,” with a Latin root, calautica, “type of women’s headdress.
Invalid
A person who is very sick or injured and needs frequent care is an invalid. Also, something no longer current or useful is invalid.
Idle
Something idle is not active. If your car is idling, it’s running but not moving. If someone calls you idle, it either means they think you don’t have enough to do or that you’re just plain lazy.
Piazza
a public square with room for pedestrians
Bedeck
Decorate
Imminent
Something that is imminent is just about to happen
Infallibility
If you don’t make mistakes and you’re never wrong, you can claim infallibility. (You’re going to have to own up to self-deception, too, because, well, humans make mistakes.)
Blighted
affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
Reinterated
To re-state
Solder
solder is the substance you use to fuse two metal surfaces.
Naught
When things come to naught, they’ve come to nothing. If you feel bad about ending up with nothing, you can also say “It was all for naught!”
