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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rebec | ancient stringed instrument |
| Gengis Khan | leader of the Mongols |
| Attila the Hun | Conquered the Roman Empire |
| Calpurnia | Caesar's wife. Warned him of the dangers of going to the Senate. |
| Thomas Mann | Author of Buddenbrooks |
| Thomas Wolfe | Author of Look Homeward, Angel |
| Primary author of the Constitution | Madison |
| Primary author of the Declaration of Independence | Jefferson |
| Freya | Norse goddess of love |
| Asgard | Home of the Norse gods |
| Varanasi | sacred city of the Hindus |
| Another name for the Battle of Bull Run | Battle of Manassa |
| In the Civil War, the northerners named battles for ____ | streams |
| In the Civil War, the southerners named battles for ____ | towns |
| Montmartre | artist district in Paris |
| Stock index in Japan | Nikkei |
| Stock index in Hong Kong | Hang Seng |
| horizontal coordinate parallel to x-axis | abscissa |
| coordinate parallel to y-axis | ordinate |
| founder of Gestalt school of psychology | Max Wertheimer |
| Peccatophobia | fear of sinning |
| creatures prominent in the cretacious period | dinosaurs |
| creatures promienet in the teriary period | mammals |
| Cressida | Sister of Trolius. Warns him of hte danger of fighting the Greeks |
| Ogden Nash | poet known for limmericks |
| Emile Zola | author of Nana |
| Dali and Magritte | Surrealist painters |
| menticide | brainwashing |
| opprobrium | reproach |
| anode | oxidation |
| cathode | reduction |
| blind author | Milton |
| author of Anna Christie and Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill |
| author of Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, and An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen |
| Cordelia | King Lear's wife, known for devotion |
| ingenuous | sincere |
| Zimbabwe | formerly Rhodesia |
| Suriname | formerly Dutch Guiana |
| Belize | formerly British Honduras |
| Pirandello | author of 6 Characters in Search of an Author |
| hemiplegia | paralysis of either right or left side |
| Strait of Magellan | separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America |
| Schuman | Romantic composer |
| Vivaldi | Baroque composer |
| Hansen's disease | Leprosy |
| Bering Strait | separates Seward Peninsula from Russia |
| Athos and Porthos | friends in Dumas' 3 Musketeers |
| League | 3 miles |
| Categorical imperative | measure of ethics for Kant |
| Utility | measure of ethics for Mill |
| Cassius | was treacherous in the play Julius Caesar |
| Mount Blanc | highest peak in the alps |
| Galton | believed that heredity shapes behavior |
| Pershing | a US general in WWI |
| enormity | great wickedness |
| typhus is caused by | rickettsiae |
| castor and pollux | gemini twins |
| remus and romulus | twins who founded the city of Rome |
| base e | natural logarithm |
| base 10 | common logarithm |
| currency of Brazil | real |
| brougham | carriage |
| solecism | violation of rules of grammar |
| apogee | outer limit of orbit |
| peripatetic | traveling from place to place |
| Augustan period | 18th century |
| Elizabethan period | 16th century |
| anathema | curse |
| The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Gondoliers, Iolanth | operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan |
| Alexander Graham Bell's assistant | Watson |
| odometer | measures distance |
| anemometer | measures velocity of the wind |
| inimical | hostile |
| arrogate | usurp |
| surfeit | satiate |
| ichthylogy | study of fish |
| Lew Alcindor | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| author of Darkness and Noon | Koestler |
| Pathetique | symphony by Tchaikovsky |
| Eroica | symphony by Beethoven |
| The Emperor | cencerto by Beethoven |
| Brandenberg | concerto by Bach |
| poltroon | coward |
| Balanchine | ballet choreographer |
| Puccini | Composer of operas |
| termagant | shrew |
| author of The Mayor of Casterbridge | Hardy |
| glabrous | hairless |
| rubeola | measles |
| hydrogemeter | measures humidity |
| broadloom | type of carpet |
| pneumatic | powered by air pressure |
| theocrat | leader who rules based on religion |
| plutocrat | ruler distinguished by wealth |
| minaret | highest point of a mosque |
| group of ducks | brace |
| brontophobia | fear of thunder |
| bromidic | lacking originality |
| buccal | pertaining to the cheeks |
| cabal | group united to plot |
| anneal | to strengthen |
| anodyne | a pain reliever |
| archon | ruler |
| assiduous | diligent |
| astraphobia | fear of lightening |
| coda | conclusion of musical work |
| cynophobia | fear of dogs |
| cynosure | center of interest |
| herpetophobia | fear of snakes |
| hyaline | transparent |
| loggia | roofed, open galley |
| martinet | strict disciplinarian |
| jalousie | shutter with adjustable slats |
| jejune | immature |
| female donkey | jenny |
| jocose | humorous |
| parsimony | thriftiness |
| parvenu | one recently risen to a position, but not yet possessing requisite dignity / characteristics |
| philatelist | one who studies stamps |
| nyctophobia | fear of darkness |
| numismatist | one who studies coins |
| nuncupative | not written |
| ochlophobia | fear of crowds |
| purloin | to steal |
| puce | dark red |
| puerile | childish |
| pyrrhic | victory won at excessively high cost |
| quisling | traitor |
| quondam | former / sometime |
| risible | capable of laghing |
| sagacious | wise |
| salubrious | healthy |
| saturning | gloomy, sullen |
| virago | loud, overbearing woman |
| ungulate | hooflike |
| urbane | polished, polite |
| soporific | causing sleep |
| horology | study of measurement of time |
| histology | study of living tissue |
| philology | study of language |
| teleology | study of final causes in nature |
| limnology | study of fresh waters |
| hagiology | study of saints |
| eschatology | study of the end of the world |
| entomology | study of insects |
| deontology | study of ethics |
| axiology | study of values |
| alalogy | study of algae |
| group of penguins | parcel |
| group of peacocks | muster |
| group of turkeys | rafter |
| group of snails | walk |
| group of leopards | leap |
| group of kittens | kindle |
| group of swans | drift |
| group of worms | clew |
| leitmotif | recurring theme |
| former name of Iran | Persia |
| former name of Iraq | Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria |
| former name of Zaire | Congo |
| former name of Ghana | gold Coast |
| alphabet for slavic / russian languages | Cyrillic |
| alphabet for ancient Egymptians | cuneiform |
| alphabets with no vowels | Hebrew and Arabic |
| First battles of American Revolution | Lexington / Concord |
| invented penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
| invented wireless radio | Marconi |
| Invented hot air balloon | Montgolfier |
| invented dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
| invented steam locomotive | George Stephenson |
| Unified Chile | Bernardo O'Higgens |
| Unified Italy | Guiseppe Garibaldi |
| unified Germany | Otton von Bismark |
| unified Venezuela / Peru, Bolivia | Simon Bolivar |
| End of American Revolution | Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown |
| Start of Civil War | Harper's Ferry |
| First Battles of Civil War | Fort Sumter and Bull Run |
| End of Civil War | surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appotomox |
| End of French Revolution | treaty of Amiens |
| End of WWI | Treaty of Versailles |
| End of WWII | Japan surrenders at Potsdam Conference |
| Ship sunk at Pearl Harbor | Arizona |
| Reykjavik Conference | Reagan gorbachev summit meeting |
| Austrian psychiatrist; inferiority complex | Alfred Adler |
| American Anthropologist; author of Patterns of culture | Ruth Benedict |
| Developed IQ tests | Developed Alfred Binet and Simon TheodoreIQ tests |
| Franz Boas | father of modern anthropology |
| Hagia Sophia | art museum in Istanbul |
| Hermitage | art museum in Leningrad |
| Pergamon | art museum in Berlin |
| Rijks | art museum in amsterdam |
| Tate | art museum in London |
| tretyakov | art museum in Moscow |
| Uffizi | art museum in Florence |
| author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| author of The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady | James Henry |
| author of Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis |
| roman a clef | novel based on real persons |
| author of The Lady of the Lake, Waverly, and Ivanhoe. Inventor of the historical novel. | Sir Walter Scott |
| author of plays, pygmalion, Man and Superman, Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw |
| poet of Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, Ode to the West Wind | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| capon | rooster |
| male swan | cob |
| Courbet | realist painter |
| numismatist | coin collector |
| variance | standard deviation squared |
| Rocky planets | Mars, Venus, Earth and Mercury |
| Gas planets | Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn |
| ophiolatry | serpent worship |
| sallow | sickly, yellow |
| accretion | growth in size |
| cupidity | greed |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient |
| sycophant | flatterer |
| inchoate | undeveloped |
| insperable | insurmountable |
| inveterate | long-standing |
| peripatetic | moving frequently, itinerant |
| salubrious | healthful |
| tortuous | complex, winding |
| contumelious | impertinent |
| invidious | causing envy |
| suborn | bribe |
| Herschel | astronomer |
| busby | cap |
| D.D. | Doctor of Divinity, honorary degree |
| Abelard's lover | Heloise |
| froward | not easily controlled |
| incus, stapes and pina | parts of the ear |
| Leibniz | associated with deduction |
| Pershing | American WWI general |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | character in David Copperfield |
| jocund | sprightly |
| lack of Vitamin D causes | Rickets |
| lack of Vitamin C causes | scurvy |
| Lack of Thiamine causes | Beriberi |
| Lack of Niacin causes | Pellagra |
| El Al | Israili Airline |
| study of troupe movement | logistics |
| uxoricide | murder of own wife |
| venal | corruptivle |
| venial | forgiveable |
| laconic | wordy |
| vernal | yourthful |
| umbrage | offense |
| Caldecott | award for children's book illustrations |
| artist of Birth of Venus and St. Sebastian | Sandro Botticelli |
| Poet of Cantos | Ezra Pound |
| Maryland was founded by | Calvert |
| Carry Nation | fought for temperance |
| satrap | ruler in ancient Persia |
| attenuate | to weaken |
| misanthrope | detests people |
| euphonium | like a small tuba |
| Gestalt originated in what country | Germany |
| study of rocks | petrology |
| paintings related to Tahiti | Gauguin |
| garrulous | talkative |
| which king was overthrown in the French Revolution | Louis the XVI |
| who tricked Othello into killinghis wife | Iago |
| In the Trojan War, Hector fought for which side? | Troy |
| In the Trojan war, Achilles fought for which side? | Greece |
| Eteocles's sibling | Polynices |
| Roman numeral D | 500 |
| histrionics | theatrics |
| rising market | bull |
| falling market | bear |
| mountebank | charlatan |
| author of 1984 | Orwell |
| Who killed a hydra? | Hercules |
| Cadmean and pyrrhic | victories which are excessively costly |
| autoclave | produces heat through steam |
| defenestration | when someone is thrown out of a window |
| author of Utopia | Thomas Moore |
| Lewin | field theory of personality |
| Toscanini and Ormandy | conductors |
| de jure | in law |
| blue-nose | puritanical |
| censure | condemn |
| Pulitzer | award for journalism |
| patronymics | last names |
| touchdown is worth | 6 points |
| author of The Courtier | Castiglione |
| Jacob's twin | Esau |
| Fulton | invented the steamboat |
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