Monday, April 15, 2013

Visual Vocabulary



Locus: A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration

Overtly: Open and observable

Contrition: Sincere remorse for wrongdoing


Conundrum: A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem

Cloche: A close-fitting woman's hat with a bell-like shape
Galoshes: a shoe with a heavy sole

Strewn: to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle

Billow: A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound

Unkempt: Not properly maintained; disorderly or untidy

Bootlegger: To make, sell, or transport liquor for sale, illegally

Hearse: A vehicle for conveying a coffin to a church or cemetery.

Hickory: The hard, tough, heavy wood of such a tree

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