Facts and chat for Brainscape - New Words 4

Question 1

voluptuary

Answer 1

a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.

Question 2

hawser

Answer 2

a thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship

Question 3

pullulating

Answer 3

breed or spread prolifically or rapidly; “a ___ little swarm of fish”

Question 4

cabochon

Answer 4

a gem that has been polished but not faceted

Question 5

bey

Answer 5

Turkish title for chieftain, traditionally applied to the leaders or rulers of various sized areas in the Ottoman Empire

Question 6

prognathous

Answer 6

(of a lower jaw or chin) projecting; “her chin was a little _ “

Question 7

evanescence

Answer 7

the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight; “the _ of the morning mist”

Question 8

myxomatosis

Answer 8

a highly infectious and usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing swelling of the mucous membranes and inflammation and discharge around the eyes.

Question 9

vitiate

Answer 9

spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; “the whole enterprise was ___-ed by hypocrisy”

Question 10

gorget

Answer 10

an article of clothing that covered the throat; a piece of armour for the throat.

Question 11

bibulous

Answer 11

excessively fond of drinking alcohol

Question 12

baluster

Answer 12

also called spindle or stair stick

Question 13

coxcomb

Answer 13

a vain and conceited man; a dandy.

Question 14

Sjambok

Answer 14

In Africa, the ___ is a cattle prod, a whip, a riding crop and a means of self-protection

Question 15

kaross

Answer 15

a cloak made of sheepskin, or the hide of other animals, with the hair left on; a tourist item in South Africa

Question 16

prophylactic

Answer 16

intended to prevent disease

Question 17

bumptious

Answer 17

irritatingly self-assertive; “an impossibly _ and opinionated ass”

Question 18

Chimurenga

Answer 18

a Shona word which means to fight or struggle; it also refers to the insurrections against administration by the British South Africa Company during the late 1890s

Question 19

diablerie

Answer 19

the quality of being reckless or wild in a charismatic way.

Question 20

exiguous

Answer 20

very small in size or amount; “my ___ musical resources”

Question 21

condotierre

Answer 21

a leader or member of a troop of mercenaries, especially in Italy.

Question 22

a fictional land in Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels occupied by giants

Answer 22

Brobdingnag

Question 23

ormer

Answer 23

sea ear, sea snail

Question 24

marquetry

Answer 24

when layers of wood is used as decoration

Question 25

bricolage

Answer 25

(in art or literature) construction or creation from a diverse range of available things; “the chaotic ___ of the novel is brought together in a unifying gesture”

Question 26

micturition

Answer 26

pee

Question 27

astatic

Answer 27

unstable

Question 28

pulchritudinous

Answer 28

physical beauty

Question 29

tipstaff

Answer 29

sheriff deputy; bailiff

Question 30

tatting

Answer 30

making lace by hand

Question 31

panatella

Answer 31

long thin cigar

Question 32

attenuator

Answer 32

a device consisting of an arrangement of resistors which reduces the strength of a radio or audio signal