June Vocab

Front 1

Heuristic

Back 1

Encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method.

Hint 1

Adjective

Front 2

Onomatopoeia

Back 2

The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

Hint 2

Noun

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Comity

Back 3

mutual courtesy; civility.

Hint 3

Noun

I believe I had no money to buy them, but there was an open account, or a comity, between the printer and the bookseller, and I must have been allowed a certain discretion in regard to getting books.

Front 4

Gengenshein

Back 4

Astronomy. A faint, elliptical patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun, being a reflection of sunlight by meteoric material in space.

Hint 4

At first it seems imaginary, a haze against the sky, hard to make out with all the stellar objects clamoring for attention, but as the night progresses you will see it is a faint disk. It is called the gegenschein, the counterglow.

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Villatic

Back 5

of or relating to the country or to a farm; rural.

Hint 5

Adjective

And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl

Front 6

Natatorium

Back 6

a swimming pool, especially one that is indoors.

Hint 6

"I wondered which you'd rather see first," explained his escort; "the art gallery or the natatorium. I'm afraid you'll get tired before you've seen everything." "Suppose we begin with the art gallery," said he. "There's not much to see in a swimming pool.

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Olykoek

Back 7

hudson valley: older use. doughnut.

Hint 7

Noun

Olykoek is an Americanism with roots in New York Dutch. It is formed on the basis of the Dutch oliekoek meaning "oilseed cake," equivalent to olie, "oil," plus koek, "cake."

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Pierian

Back 8

of or relating to poetry or poetic inspiration; of or relating to a muse

Hint 8

Adjective

Pierian is from the placename Pieria, the reputed home of the Muses in Greek mythology. It entered English in the late 1500s.

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Tickety-boo

Back 9

chiefly british informal. fine; ok.

Hint 9

"Yes, yes--I'm tickety-boo, just tickety-boo." This was nothing short of the truth. Mr. Edward Trencom, the proprietor of Trencoms--the tenth generation of the family to occupy this position--was in the finest possible fettle.

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Referent

Back 10

the object or event to which a term or symbol is directed to for information or anything required

Hint 10

Noun

The only referent of philosophy is the human being constituted in practical experiences.

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Slyboots

Back 11

An engagingly sly or mischievious person

Hint 11

Noun

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zeitgeber

Back 12

an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock.

Hint 12

Zeitgeber is of German origin, translating literally as "time giver." It entered English in the 1960s.

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Nonpareil

Back 13

A person or thing having no equal

Hint 13

Noun

From the french word pareil meaning the same

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Terraqueous

Back 14

Consistng of land and water, as the Earth

Hint 14

Adjective; terraqueous

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Jamboree

Back 15

A carousal; any noisy merrymaking

Hint 15

Noun