Literature 8 No. 2: Lexicographer

Crinolines - A coarse stiff fabric of cotton or horsehair used especially to line and stiffen hats and garments.

Phonograph - any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.

Deluge - a great flood of water; inundation; flood.

Frangipani – a flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family, plumeria.

Stipend - a periodic payment, esp. a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.

Hyssop –


Putrefaction - the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.

Semaphore - any of various devices for signaling by changing the position of a light, flag, etc.

Parable - a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.

Furlong - a unit of distance, equal to 220 yards (201 m) or 1/8 mile

Desultory – lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful

Mongoloid - resembling the Mongols.