Vocabulary

Front 1

Shivaree

Back 1

1. A mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple.

2. An elaborate, noisy celebration.

3. To serenade with a shivaree.

Front 2

Epoch

Back 2

1.
The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything.

2.
A particular period of time marked by distinctive features or events.

3.
A memorable date.

4.
Geology. Any of several divisions of a geologic period during which a geologic series is formed. Compare age.

5.
Astronomy. An arbitrarily fixed instant of time or date, usually the beginning of a century or half century, used as a reference in giving the elements of a planetary orbit or the like. b.The mean longitude of a planet as seen from the sun at such an instant or date.

6.
Physics. The displacement from zero at zero time of a body undergoing simple harmonic motion.

Front 3

Regnant

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1.
Prevalent; widespread.
2.
Reigning; ruling (usually used following the noun it modifies): a queen regnant.
2.
Reigning; ruling (usually used following the noun it modifies): a queen regnant.
3.
Exercising authority, rule, or influence.

Front 4

Shivaree

Back 4

1.
A mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple.
2.
An elaborate, noisy celebration.
2.
An elaborate, noisy celebration.
verb: 1.
To serenade with a shivaree.

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Adumbrate

Back 5

1.
To foreshadow; prefigure.
2.
To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
2.
To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
3.
To darken or conceal partially; overshadow.

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Phlegmatic (Adjective)

Back 6

1.
Not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
2.
Self-possessed, calm, or composed.
2.
Self-possessed, calm, or composed.
3.
Of the nature of or abounding in the humor phlegm.