TR Sections 1-5 Vocab

Question 1

Glaucoma

Answer 1

disease of the eye making it difficult to see

Question 2

Pilgrims

Answer 2

A person who journeys a long distance to a sacred place

Question 3

Translucent

Answer 3

Permitting light to pass through

Question 4

Alabaster

Answer 4

Often white or translucent

Question 5

Enshroud

Answer 5

To cover

Question 6

Temporal

Answer 6

Of or relating to time as opposed to eternity

Question 7

Chronicle

Answer 7

A record of events in history

Question 8

Matrix

Answer 8

Gives origin or form to something enclosed within it

Question 9

Peril

Answer 9

Something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction

Question 10

Frescoes

Answer 10

The art of painting on a moist plaster surface

Question 11

Effigies

Answer 11

A representation or image sculpted on a monument

Question 12

Sectarian

Answer 12

Narrowly devoted or confined to a specific sect

Question 13

Deranged

Answer 13

Disordered

Question 14

Basalt

Answer 14

A common extrusive volcanic rock

Question 15

Gorge

Answer 15

A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine

Question 16

Bluff

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Having a broad flattened front; rising steeply with a broad flat or rounded front

Question 17

Piedmont

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A gentle slope leading from the base of mountains to a region of flat land

Question 18

Madacam

Answer 18

Broken stone, bound with tar or bitumen, used for surfacing roads

Question 19

Mastic

Answer 19

To grind or crush

Question 20

Shrouded

Answer 20

Cover or envelop so as to conceal from view

Question 21

Incandescence

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The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

Question 22

Cannonading

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An extended, usually heavy discharge of artillery

Question 23

Skeins

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(Clothing, personal arts and crafts/knitting and sewing) a length of yarn, etc., wound in a long coil; something resembling this, such as a lock of hair

Question 24

Meconium

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A dark green fecal material that accumulates in the fetal intestines and is discharged at or near the time of birth

Question 25

Obsidian

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A usually black or banded, hard volcanic class that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava

Question 26

Penitent

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A person performing penance under the direction of a confessor

Question 27

Coagulate

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To cause transformation of (a liquid or solid, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass

Question 28

Cheroot

Answer 28

A cigar with square-cut ends

Question 29

Provenance

Answer 29

Place of origin; derivation.

Question 30

Autistic

Answer 30

A development disorder that causes impairment