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- aria (n) - an elaborate melody sung solo a/ accompaniment, as in opera or oratorio; an air of melody; (classical mythology) Aria - a nymph, the mother of Miletus, by Apollo
- begotten (adj) - (esp. of a male parent) procreated or generated (offspring); caused/produced as an effect; (past-tense of "beget")
- bisque (n) - a thick cream soup made w/ shellfish or game; a cream soup of pureed vegetables
- cameo (n) - a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color; a literary sketch, small dramatic scene, etc., that effectively presents/depicts its subject
- clarion (adj) - clear & shrill; "the clarion call of a battle trumpet;" (n) an ancient trumpet w/ a curled shape; the sound of this instrument or any similar sound
- combine (n) - a harvesting machine for cutting & threshing grain in the field
- commerce (n) - an interchange of goods & commodities; social relations, esp. the exchange of views, attitudes, etc.; intellectual/spiritual interchange
- contrite (adj) - caused by or showing sincere remorse; filled w/ a sense of guilt & the desire for atonement; penitent
- docent (n) - a college or university lecturer; a person who is a knowledgeable guide, esp. one who conducts visitors through a museum & comments on the exhibitions
- el Greco (n) - (1541-1614) Spanish painter, born in Crete
- fallow (adj) - (of land) plowed & left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated; not in use; inactive; pale-yellow & light-brown in color; dun; (v) to make (land) fallow for agricultural purposes
- gainful (adj) - serving to increase wealth or resources; profitable
- gangly (adj) - tall, thin, & awkward; long & thin
- goad (v) - to provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction; to drive/urge an animal w/ a goad (a spiked stick used for driving cattle)
- grackle (n) - a songbird of the American blackbird family, the male of which has shiny black plumage w/ a blue-green shine
- gumbo (n) - a soup thickened w/ okra pods or file & containing meat or seafoods & usually vegetables
- gyroscope (n) - an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, & capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings & surrounding parts; used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- litany (n) - a series of petitions for use in church services/processions, usually recited by the clergy & responded to in a recurring formula by the people; prayer, invocation; also - a tedious recital or repetitive series; enumeration
- locust (n) - short-horned grasshopper; any of various cicadas
- matron (n) - a married woman, esp. one who is mature & staid or dignified & has an established social pattern; a woman who has charge of the domestic affairs of a hospital, prison, or any other institution
- monsignor (n) - a title conferred upon certain prelates (prelate (n) - ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; church dignitary)
- mulatto (n) - a person of mixed white & black ancestry, esp. a person w/ one white & black parent
- mule (n) - a hybrid plant or animal, esp. a sterile one; any of several standard crossbred varieties of sheep; the offspring of a donkey & horse, typically sterile & used as a beast of burden
- orthopedics (n) - the medical specialty concerned w/ correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, esp. the extremeties & the spine & associated structures, as muscles & ligaments
- parcel (n) - fragment; portion; a tract or plot of land; a company, collection, or group of persons, animals, or things; a package/wrapped bundle
- parishioner (n) - one of the community or inhabitants of a parish (a local church w/ its field of activity)
- piddling (adj) - amounting to very little; trifling; negligible; dawdling; "a piddling sum of money"
- pirogues (n) - native boats, esp. American dugouts; also -- canoes made by hollowing out a tree trunk; flat-bottomed sailing vessels having 2 masts
- plumage (n) - a bird's feathers collectively
- progeny (n) - a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal; something that originates or results from something else; outcome, issue
- quadroon (n) - a person who is one-quarter black by descent
- rectory (n) - a rector's house; parsonage; the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church
- rosary (n) - a string of beads used for counting (rosary) prayers during recitation; a series of prayers, usually consisting of 15 decades of aves
- Saint Francis (n) - (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)
- sentinel (n) - a person/thing who watches or stands as if watching; a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers & prevent a surprise attack ("to stand sentinel")
- sphinx (n) - (in classical mythology) a monster, usually represented as having the head/breast of a woman & body of a lion & wings of an eagle; also--a mysterious, inscrutable person or thing, esp. one given to enigmatic questions/answers
- staid (adj) - sedate, respectable, and unadventurous; serious-minded, traditional, & steady
- statuary (n) - sculpture consisting of statues; statues regarded collectively
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