Vocabulary
Pages- 1-58
Pages- 1-58
- Cudgels - a short heavy club
- Mountebanks - person who sells quack medicines from a platform
- Perambulated- travel over especially on foot
- Effulgence - radiant splendor
- Placid - notice posted in a public place
- Guillotine - a machine for beheading by a heavy blade
- rococo artistic style of the 18th Century by elaborate forms
- Valise - suitcase
Pages 58-95
- Clamorous - Marked by confused noise
- Chimeras - Fire Breathing she-monster; lion's head, goat body, serpents tail
- Rictus -gape of a mouth
- Tumults - disorderly agitation or milling about a coward usual with uproar and confusion
- Pantomime - an ancient roman dramatic performance featuring a solo dancer and narrative chorus
Pages 98-110
- akimbo - arm bent and hand on hip
- piccolo - small flute
Pages 110-160
- agglomerate - collecting a cluster of things
- phlegm - one of four humors that's considered to be cold and moist and causes sluggishness
- Jehoshaphat - King of Judah who put Judah in alliance with Israel
- Airedale - a breed of a large terrier
- leviathan - a sea monster
- ballast - heavy material on a ship to balance the ship
- rumpus - uproar
- juggernaut - belief to which person devout himself
Pages 160-193
- Palanquin - covered lifter for one passenger
- Baroque - relating to European architecture, music and art with ornate detail
- Crustacea - seafood
- Semaphore - a system of sending messages by arms of flags in a certain position
Pages 193 - 260
- graffito - a form of decoration made by scratiching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color
- Facsimile - an exact copy
- Vise - a metal tool with movable jaws used to hold an object firmly in place
- Harlequin - many colors
- Mausoleum - a crypt, vault burial chamber
- pygmy - very small
- epileptic - a person with a disorder of sensory disturbance or loss of consciousness
- Phrenologist - person who studies the shape and size of the cranium
- panoply - collection
- Pavane - dance popular in the 18th and 17th centuries
- Saurian - lizards of any large reptiles
- Siphon - pipe used to convey liquid upward form a container and then downward to a lower level by gravity
- Avaricious - showing an extreme greed for a material gain
- Garrote - kill by strangling
