TR Sections 1-5 Vocab Flashcards
Glaucoma
disease of the eye making it difficult to see
Pilgrims
A person who journeys a long distance to a sacred place
Translucent
Permitting light to pass through
Alabaster
Often white or translucent
Enshroud
To cover
Temporal
Of or relating to time as opposed to eternity
Chronicle
A record of events in history
Matrix
Gives origin or form to something enclosed within it
Peril
Something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction
Frescoes
The art of painting on a moist plaster surface
Effigies
A representation or image sculpted on a monument
Sectarian
Narrowly devoted or confined to a specific sect
Deranged
Disordered
Basalt
A common extrusive volcanic rock
Gorge
A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine
Bluff
Having a broad flattened front; rising steeply with a broad flat or rounded front
Piedmont
A gentle slope leading from the base of mountains to a region of flat land
Madacam
Broken stone, bound with tar or bitumen, used for surfacing roads
Mastic
To grind or crush
Shrouded
Cover or envelop so as to conceal from view
Incandescence
The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
Cannonading
An extended, usually heavy discharge of artillery
Skeins
(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
Meconium
A dark green fecal material that accumulates in the fetal intestines and is discharged at or near the time of birth
Obsidian
A usually black or banded, hard volcanic class that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava
Penitent
A person performing penance under the direction of a confessor
Coagulate
To cause transformation of (a liquid or solid, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass
Cheroot
A cigar with square-cut ends
Provenance
Place of origin; derivation.
Autistic
A development disorder that causes impairment
