Weekly - 3

Question 1

anathema

Answer 1

anathema

n.

1. something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
2. a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.
   - [literary] a strong curse

Question 2

Brahman

Answer 2

n.

1. a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood
2. (in Hinduism) the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena.
3. an ox of a humped breed originally domesticated in India that is tolerant of heat and drought and is now kept widely in tropical and warm-temperate countries.

Question 3

contrapposto

Answer 3

n.
[sculpture] an asymmetric arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with, while balancing, those of the hips and legs.

Question 4

épée

/eˈpā/

Answer 4

n.
a sharp-pointed dueling sword, designed for thrusting and used, with the end blunted, in fencing.
- the sport of fencing with an épée.

Question 5

Brahmin

Answer 5

n.

1. variant spelling of Brahman.
2. [US] a socially or culturally superior person, especially a member of the upper classes from New England.

Question 6

contradance

Answer 6

n.

a country dance in which the couples form lines facing each other.

Question 7

contredanse

/ˈkôntrədäns,ˌkäntrəˈdäns/

Answer 7

n.
a French form of country dance, originating in the 18th century and related to the quadrille.
- a piece of music for a contredanse.
- another term for contradance.

Question 8

quadrille

Answer 8

n.
a square dance performed typically by four couples and containing five figures, each of which is a complete dance in itself.

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n.
a trick-taking card game for four players using a deck of forty cards, fashionable in the 18th century.

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n.
a ruled grid of small squares, especially on paper.

Question 9

cotillion

/kəˈtilyən/

Answer 9

n.

1. an 18th-century French dance based on the contredanse.
   - [US] a quadrille.
2. [US] a formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are presented.

Question 10

jib

Answer 10

n.

1. a triangular staysail set forward of the forwardmost mast.
2. the projecting arm of a crane.

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v.
(of an animal, especially a horse) stop and refuse to go on.
- (of a person) be unwilling to do or accept something

Question 11

palomino

Answer 11

n.

1. a pale golden or tan-colored horse or pony with a white mane and tail, originally bred in the southwestern US.
2. a variety of white grape, originally grown around Jerez in southern Spain, used especially to make sherry and fortified wines.

Question 12

arch

Answer 12

adj.

deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing.

Question 13

hayseed

Answer 13

n.

1. grass seed obtained from hay.
2. [North American] a person from the country, especially a simple, unsophisticated one.

Question 14

punim

/ˈpo͝onim/

Answer 14

n.

(chiefly in Jewish use) a person’s face.

Question 15

alderman

Answer 15

n.
[North American | Australian] an elected member of a municipal council.
- (in England before 1974) a member of a county or borough council, next in status to the Mayor.
- (in Anglo-Saxon England) a noble serving the king as a chief officer in a district or shire.