Vocab 5

Question 1

Fish out of water

Answer 1

a person in a completely unsuitable environment or situation.

Question 2

Abattoir

Answer 2

a slaughterhouse.

Question 3

brama

Answer 3

longing , yearning , craving.

Question 4

ribena

Answer 4

a type of sweet drink made from blackcurrants, sold in the UK and drunk especially by children

Question 5

Bespoke

Answer 5

1. speak to.
   “and in disgrace bespoke him thus”
2. (of an appearance or action) suggest; be evidence of.
   “the attractive tree-lined road bespoke money”
3. made for a particular customer or user.
   “a bespoke suit”

Question 6

Wag

Answer 6

1. a derogatory term for the Wives and Girlfriends of the England Football Squad, generally considered to be shallow, money-grubbing hoes.
2. a single rapid movement from side to side.
   “a chirpy wag of the head”
3. a person who makes jokes; a joker.

Phrase: how the world wags — how affairs are going or being conducted

Question 7

wagwan

Answer 7

Jamaican slang for “What’s going on?” In American Boy, Estelle says, “tell em kno wagwan blud” which means “Tell em’ what’s up, blud”

Question 8

Cross your T’s and dot your I’s

Answer 8

Phrase
If you say that someone dots the i’s and crosses the t’s, you mean that they pay great attention to every small detail in a task (you wrote a paragraph to make sure everything was dotted and you put lines through T’s)

Question 9

Satin

Answer 9

a smooth, glossy fabric produced by a weave in which the threads of the warp are caught and looped by the weft only at certain intervals.

Question 10

weft

Answer 10

1. (in weaving) the crosswise threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the warp) are passed to make cloth.
   “weft threads”
2. The band part of a hair extension that you cut with razors

Question 11

denture

Answer 11

a removable plate or frame holding one or more artificial teeth.
“ideally, dentures should be renewed every three or four years”

Question 12

rack your brain

Answer 12

make a great effort to think of or remember something.
“Meg racked her brain for inspiration”

Question 13

The Five Percent Nation

Answer 13

An Islamic, euphemized Black Supremacist group who believe they are the 5% of the world tasked with informing 85% of the world about the world’s shadow leaders who are the last 10%. They influenced black rights and rappers with stars like MF Doom elicited from their community.

Question 14

Bloodclot

Answer 14

1. Jamaican derogatory for the menstrual blood clots for before people had tampons. So calling someone a tampon. Can also be used in joyous exclamation like the ‘F word’ “F*** YEAH!’ “blooodclaaaat yuh get yuh degree bawss!”
   Synonym: Bumboclat
2. a gelatinous mass of fibrin and blood cells formed by the coagulation of blood

Question 15

Gelatinous

Answer 15

having the consistency of jelly.
“a sweet, gelatinous drink”

Question 16

Coagulation

Answer 16

the action or process of a liquid, especially blood, changing to a solid or semi-solid state.

Question 17

wazoo

Answer 17

a person’s buttocks or anus.

Question 18

yonder

Answer 18

at some distance in the direction indicated; over there.

Question 19

perforferate

Answer 19

pierce and make a hole or holes in.

Question 20

levy

Answer 20

1. impose a tax, fee, or fine on
2. enlist (someone) for military service.
   “he sought to levy one man from each parish for service”
3. seize (property) to satisfy a legal judgment.
   “there were no goods to levy upon”
4. begin to wage (war).
   “they then proceeded without further ceremony to levy war upon the king”

Question 21

Cess

Answer 21

A levy (a tax)

Question 22

Escrow

Answer 22

Escrow is a legal arrangement in which a third party temporarily holds property until a particular condition has been met

Question 23

Meat Grinder

Answer 23

1. a destructive action or process.
   “trench warfare was the meat grinder that every soldier dreaded”
2. a machine for mincing meat

Question 24

pithy

Answer 24

(of language, style, or phrase) concise, but full of meaning and expression

Question 25

maxim

Answer 25

a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
“the maxim that actions speak louder than words”

Question 26

maxi

Answer 26

a skirt, dress, or coat reaching to the ankle.
“shorter girls may have to hem their maxis”

Question 27

paddy

Answer 27

1. a field where rice is grown.
2. rice before threshing or in the husk
3. derogatory term for an Irishman
4. a fit of temper.
   “John drove off in a paddy”
5. A boat with like 50 people rowing

Question 28

Percocet

Answer 28

A drug indicated to relieve of moderate to moderately severe pain

Question 29

Apache

Answer 29

Under the leadership of Geronimo, the last North American Indian people to be conquered. They lived chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona

Question 30

postmortem

Answer 30

occurring or performed after death.
“postmortem changes in his body”

(mortem means death)

Question 31

Colon

Answer 31

1. Transitionary punctuation to show examples.
2. the main part of the large intestine (the super long hose in the abdomen that goes from the stomach to the poop hole). It absorbs water and electrolytes from food that has remained undigested.
3. the basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Salvador, equal to 100 centimos in Costa Rica and 100 centavos in El Salvador.

Question 32

Nevada

Answer 32

Denoting something snow-covered or snowy.

Question 33

Parakeet

Answer 33

A cute, fluffy parrot with a black eye.

Question 34

Macaw

Answer 34

The red, yellow, blue parrot from RIO

Question 35

blackcurrant

Answer 35

Berries who grow off vines, commonly made into Ribena. They resemble blueberries and taste like grape and cherry.