Spelling/Vocabulary List #6

{Our words for the next two weeks are taken from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien.}

Flabbergasted - verb (used with object)
to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound

Laden

- adjective
burdened; loaded down

- verb (used with object)
to lade

Lavish

- adjective
1. expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
2. using or giving in great amounts; prodigal (often fo. by of): lavish of his time; lavish of affection.


- verb (used with object)
3. to expend or give in great amounts or without limit: to lavish gifts on a person.


Outlandish - adjective

1. freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre.
2. having a foreign appearance.
3. remote from civilized area; out-of-the-way.
4. Archaic.  foreign; alien.

Pavilion

- noun

1. a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
2. any of a number of separate or attached buildings forming a hospital or the like.
3. Architecture a projecting element of a facade, used especially at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower.
4. a tent, especially a large and elaborate one.
5.  a small, ornamental building in a garden.
6. Also called base. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem below the girdle.

- verb (used with object)

7. to shelter in or as if in a pavilion.
8. to furnish with pavilions.

Peculiar

- adjective

1. strange; queer; odd
2. uncommon; unusual
3. distinctive in nature or character from others.
4. belonging characteristically (usually fol. by to): an expression peculiar to Canadians.
5. belonging exclusively to some person, group, or thing: the peculiar properties of a drug
6. Astronomy designating a star or galaxy with special properties that deviates from others of its spectral type or galaxy class.

- noun

7. a property or privilege belonging exclusively or characteristically to a person.
8. British a particular parish or church that is exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop in whose diocese it lies and is governed by another.
9. peculiars.  Also called arbitraries.  British Printing.  special characters not generally included in standard type fonts, as phonetic symbols, mathematical symbols, etc.

Phalanx - noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
2. any body of troops in close array.
3. a number of individuals, especially persons united for a common purpose.
4. a compact or closely massed body of persons, animals, or things.
5. Military (cap.) a radar-controlled US Navy 20mm Gatling-type gun deployed on ships as a last line of defense against anti-ship cruise missiles.
6. (in Fourierism) a group of about 1800 persons, living together and holding their property in common.
7. Anatomy, Zoology  any of the bones of the fingers or toes.

Rune - noun

1. any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
2. something written or inscribed in such characters.
3. an aphorism, poem, or saying with mystical meaning or for use in casting a spell.

Scintillating - adjective

1. animated; vivacious; effervescent
2. witty; brilliantly clever

Spasm - noun

1. Pathology.  a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm).
2. any sudden, brief spell of great energy, activity, feeling, etc.

Sundry

- adjective
1. various or diverse

- Idiom
2. all and sundry, everybody, collectively and individually: Free samples were given to all and sundry.

Unfurl - verb

(used with object)
1. to spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag

(used without object)
2. to become unfurled

Vigor - noun

1. active strength or force.
2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
3. energetic activity; energy; intensity.
4. force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
5. active or effective force, especially legal validity.

Vulgar - adjective

1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste.
2. indecent; obscene; lewd
3. crude; coarse; unrefined
4. of, pertaining to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses.
5. current, popular; common.
6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular.
7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary.