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HOD Vocab #1
HOD Vocab #1 for IB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Yawl | a ship’s small boat |
| Thames | River over 200 miles (322 kilometers) S England flowing from the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire E into the North Sea |
| Offing | the part of the deep sea seen from the shore |
| Barges | a roomy pleasure boat; especially: a boat of state elegantly furnished and decorated |
| Gleams | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| Varnished | to cover or conceal (as something unpleasant) with something that gives an attractive appearance |
| Gravesend | town SE England in Kent pop 52,963 |
| Estuary | a water passage where the tide meets a river current; especially: an arm of the sea at the lower end of a rive |
| Ascetic | practicing strict self |
| Aft | near, toward, or in the stern of a ship or the tail of an aircraft |
| Essex | county SE England bordering on North Sea & N shore of Thames River; one of kingdoms in Anglo |
| Diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| Venerable | made sacred especially by religious or historical association |
| Erebus | a personification of darkness in Greek mythology, a place of darkness in the underworld on the way to Hades |
| Deptford | former metropolitan borough SE London, England, now part of Lewisham |
| Greenwich | town in England |
| Propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| Spectral | of, relating to, or made by a spectrum |
| Trireme | an ancient galley having three BANKS of oars |
| Concertina | a musical instrument of the accordion family |
| Falernian | was produced from Aglianico grapes (and quite possibly Greco as well)[1] on the slopes of Mt. Falernus near the border of Latium and Campania where it became the most renowned wine produced in ancient Rome |
| Skulking | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| Ravenna | commune N Italy NE of Florence pop 139,771 |
| Pretence | a claim made or implied; especially one not supported by fact |
| Tentative | not fully worked out or developed, or hesitant and uncertain |
| Calamities | a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss |
| Sepulchre | a place of burial, a receptacle for religious relics especially in an altar |
| Venetian | a blind (as for a window) having numerous horizontal slats that may be set simultaneously at any of several angles so as to vary the amount of light admitted |
| Somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed, SLEEP WALKER |
| Reposed | to lay at rest |
| Placidity | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| Countenances | a calm expression |
| Cravat | a band or scarf worn around the neck |
| Vermouths | a dry or sweet aperitif wine flavored with aromatic herbs and often used in mixed drinks |
| Calipers | any of various measuring instruments having two usually adjustable arms, legs, or jaws used especially to measure diameter or thickness |
| Gaberdine | a long loose outer garment worn in medieval times and associated especially with Jews since the 16th century |
| Imperturbably | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
| Insipid | dull or flat |
| Sordid | marked by baseness or grossness, vile, filthy, dirty |
| Farce | a light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot |
| Languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion |
| Ensign | a flag that is flown (as by a ship) as the symbol of nationality and that may also be flown with a distinctive badge added to its design |
| Lugubrious | mournful |
| Farcical | laughably inept, absurd, satirical |
| Catacomb | a subterranean cemetery of galleries with recesses for tombs, or an underground passageway or group of passageways |
| Morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| Gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| Athwart | across especially in an oblique direction |
| Meagre | having little flesh |
| Alacrity | promptness in response, cheerful readiness |
| Rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| Obliquely | not straightforward |
| Uncongenial | not sympathetic or compatible |
| Propitiatory | relating to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of |
| Indissolubly | incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken |
| Truckle bed | a low bed usually on casters that can be rolled or slid under a higher bed when not in use |
| Clerical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy |
| Uncouth | not known or not familiar to one, seldom experienced |
| Jibbed | to refuse to proceed further |
| Back water | not pleasant, water backed up in its COURSE by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the tide |
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