[NFBV-Potomac-Announce] FW: Vocabulary for The Glass Castle
John Halverson
jwh100 at outlook.com
Tue Sep 27 19:45:16 UTC 2022
Below is Carl’s vocabulary for the Glass Castle.
Thank you Carl.
John
From: Carl Knoettner <carl_knoettner at verizon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 2:36 PM
To: jwh100 at outlook.com
Subject: Vocabulary for The Glass Castle
p 9 tutu
p 21 thwock
p 22 arroyos
p 24 sluice - sliding gate
p 30 roiling - make a liquid muddy - it was roiling the dust
p 40 that dago fellow - offensive - used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a person of Italian or Spanish birth or descent
p 59 obsidian - a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava
p 59 pyrite - fool's gold
p 60 geodes - purple amethysts
p 69 gold could be leached out
p 82 JD - juvenile delinquent
p 94 hollyhocks - plants
p 105 Pope Nicholas III's simony - the buying and selling of ecclesesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices.
p 107 The aardvark was busy Hoovering up ants - Hoovering - cleaning with a vacuum cleaner.
p 112 riffled - turn over something, especially pages of a book, quickly and casually
p 113 onyx - a kind of quartz - an onyx ashtray for Dad
p 115 - trees were pagan symbols of worship
p 125 - loped - loped over to the car - run or moved with a long, bounding stride
p 133 - till crops - turn the soil to control for weeds and pests and to prepare for seeding
p 140 - power of positive thinking - book by Norman Vincent Peale
p 145 - bottle of hooch - alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whiskey
p 160 - scuttle - a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.
p 168 phlox - a North American plant that typically has dense clusters of colorful scented flowers, widely grown as a rock-garden or border plant
p 168 - orcs - members of an imaginary race of humanlike creatures, characterized as ugly, warlike, and malevolent.
p 172 - a blackberry pie, like in the nursery rhyme - Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
p 225 - dulcimers - played dulcimers - musical string instruments
p 239 - wild bleeding hearts - plants
p 248 - bodega - a small grocery store - in front of the bodega
p 248 - loosies - single cigarettes
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