Pronounce / define

Question 1

Baroque

Answer 1

Bar…owk

…relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed Mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.

Question 2

Define ‘monoglot’

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Question 3

Define ‘elan’

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Question 4

Define ‘sangfroid’

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Break ‘sang froid’ down into sounds: [SANG] + [FREUD]

Question 5

Define ‘specious’

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Question 6

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Uprooted from one’s natural, geographical, social, or cultural environment.

Etymology
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Calque of French déraciner, from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“root”).

Question 7

Define douce

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Sober and sedate (rhymes with goose)

Question 8

Define inchoate

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Recently begun, but not fully formed

Because our company just recently opened its doors, we are inchoate and are not offering all of our services yet.

In co at

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Piquant

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Pleasantly sharp or appetising flavour

Question 10

Antediluvian

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Belonging to the time before the flood

Question 11

Define Holocene (began when?)

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The Holocene is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years before present, after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together form the Quaternary period.

Question 12

Fictio

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From Latin - fashioning / forming

Just a stem, not a word

Question 13

Galvinism

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Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action.[2] The term also came to refer to the discoveries of its namesake, Luigi Galvani, specifically the generation of electric current within biological organisms and the contraction/convulsion of biological muscle tissue upon contact with electric current.[3] While Volta theorized and later demonstrated the phenomenon of his “Galvanism” to be replicable with otherwise inert materials, Galvani thought his discovery to be a confirmation of the existence of “animal electricity,” a vital force which gave life to organic matter.[4]

• linked contextually to Frankenstein and ideas of reanimation

Question 14

Define peripatetic

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One who wanders from place to place

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Define meretricious

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Lamarckism

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Question 17

After 1965, opposition to civil rights was moribund, antiblack riots were a distant memory.

Define moribund

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Dying. Declining.

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borscht / borsh

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Question 19

Define inter subjective

(From Sapiens)

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The imagined order is inter-subjective. Even if by some superhuman effort I succeed in freeing my personal desires from the grip of the imagined order, I am just one person. In order to change the imagined order I must convince millions of strangers to cooperate with me. For the imagined order is not a subjective order existing in my own imagination – it is rather an inter-subjective order, existing in the shared imagination of thousands and millions of people.

Question 20

Synchronicity

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He saw the incident as a classic example of what C. G. Jung called synchronicity , an idea that fascinated him. Jung and Hughes used the term for those moments of meaningful coincidence when the boundary between different worlds dissolves. A synchronicity is like a dream that offers a glimpse into an alternative reality.

Question 21

“beef olives for the cardinal, stuffed with sage and marjoram…”

Define marjoram

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Marjoram (/ˈmɑːrdʒərəm/; Origanum majorana) is a cold-sensitive perennial herb or undershrub with sweet pine and citrus flavours.

Question 22

Define ‘votive’

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Offered or consecrated in fulfilment of a vow.

‘… she placed those votive offerings at my feet.’

Question 23

Define ‘nymph’
(+ meaning)

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“That word, nymph, paced out the length and breadth of our futures. In our language, it means not just goddess, but bride.”

Question 24

Cambric

define

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Cambric

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Cummerbund

Question 26

Use sepulchral in a sentence.

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'He's gone,' Rory whispered in **sepulchral** tones. A sepulchral place is dark, quiet, and empty. He made his way along the sepulchral corridors.

Question 27

Define sententious

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A: Adj. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. "he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric"

Question 28

Tilting at windmills

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Tilting at windmills means fighting imaginary enemies. The idiom tilting at windmills is first seen in the English language in the 1640s as “…fight with the windmills…” The verb tilting was soon substituted for the word fight. The term is taken from the classic Spanish novel, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In the novel, the main character becomes enamored with the idea of chivalry, and spends his time fighting with windmills that he imagines to be giants. Tilting is the medieval sport of jousting with a lance. Of course, the windmills are not enemies but are simply inanimate objects, and Quixote’s tilting at windmills was an exercise in futility. Related terms are tilt at windmills, tilts at windmills, tilted at windmills.

Question 29

Habitus

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“Habitus" is a big word that describes the way that our experiences and the things around us can shape the way we think, act, and understand the world. So, for example, if you grow up in a family that really values education and reading, that might shape the way you think about learning and what you enjoy doing in your free time. That's kind of what "habitus" means - the way that our environment can shape who we are and how we behave.

Question 30

Disposable knowledge

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Knowledge you look up, use once and then don’t need to recall. It is stored ‘in Google’.

Question 31

Prie-dieu

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A prie-dieu (French: literally, "pray [to] God") is a type of prayer desk primarily intended for private devotional use, but which may also be found in churches.

Question 32

**teal** - define They eat in contemplative silence: spiced venison, **teal**, partridges, and oranges thin-sliced like sunbursts. A shaft of light makes its way over the fallen snow, picking a path to the year ahead. The court rides through the city of Westminster and east to Greenwich, a moving trail of darkness against the frost. The Thames is a long glimmer of ice: a road in a frozen desert, a trail into our future, a highway for our God. (*‘The Mirror and the Light’ H Mantel*)

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Question 33

Obdurate - define

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Question 34

Define vespers

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Question 35

Define scion

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scion · ​(formal or literary) a young member of a family, especially a famous or important one. Sigh - on

Question 36

Put **striated** into a sentence.

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The rock was singularly striated, the scratches arranged concentrically and in helicoidal curves. ... The male has very large horns, with three rounded angles at the base, flattened in front, and striated transversely. (Marked with long, thin, parallel streaks.

Question 37

Scapegrace

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Question 38

Define hassock?

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Question 39

Define: jennet

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Small Spanish horse

Question 40

Define: Pater Noster

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The Lord’s Prayer

Question 41

Define dichotomise

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Question 42

Q: He doesn’t even give a hang about the Christian religion, deep down: it’s a **convenance** (DEFINE)

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Q: He doesn’t even give a hang about the Christian religion, deep down: it’s a convenance (DEFINE) A: Behaviour that is considered acceptable or polite to most members of a society

Question 43

Q: Define **sybarite**.

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A: sybarite A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary. Original Highlight: ‘Oh, you sybarite.