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Tales from the crypt intro 

 

Much ado about nothing trailer 1993

 

Mockingbird

Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the Mimidae family. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession. 

 

 

Tales from the crypt trailer 

Deity

A deity is a concept conceived in diverse ways in various cultures, typically as a natural or supernatural being considered divine or sacred. Monotheistic religions accept only one Deity (predominantly referred to as God), polytheistic religions accept and worship multiple deities,henotheistic religions accept one supreme deity without denying other deities considering them as equivalent aspects of the same divine principle,while several non-theistic religions deny any supreme eternal creator deity but accept a pantheon of deities which live, die and are reborn just like any other being.

 

 

Demon

A demon   is a supernatural, often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

 

 

Greys Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series that premiered on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as a mid-season replacement on March 27, 2005. The series focuses on the fictional lives of surgical interns, residents, and attendings as they gradually evolve into seasoned doctors, while trying to maintain personal lives and relationships. 

 

Engrossed(adj)

Definition:If you are engrossed in something, it holds your attention completely.

The student is engrossed in his book.

 

 

Endangered(adj)

Definition:To threaten with extinction.

These endangered gentle giants are highly social animals.

 

Museum(n)

Definition:A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.

At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness. 

 

 

 

 

Millenium(n)

Definition:A span of one thousand years.

Shortly after the turn of the new millenium.

 

 

 

 

 

Spectator(n)

Definition:An observer of an event, especially a sports contest.

The most popular spectator sport is football.

 

Inspect(vt)

Definition:To examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws.

They have the right to come in and inspect the meter. 

 

Perspective(n)

Definition:A view or vista.

The Telegraph puts the union in a historical perspective.

 

 

 

Auditorium(n)

Definition:A large room to accommodate an audience in a building such as a school or theater.

The Albert Hall is a huge auditorium.

 

 

 

Audience(n)

Definition:A group of viewers or listeners, especially those present at a performance (as a play, concert, or lecture) or a public event (as a rally).

My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street. 

 

 

 

Desist(vi)

Definition:If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.

They agreed to desist from the bombing campaign. 

 

 

Divert(vt)

Definition: To turn aside from a course or direction:

He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.

 

 

 

 

Dictator(n)

Definition:An absolute ruler.

She was a dictator and a demon.

 

 

Dictation(n)

Definition:The act or process of dictating material to another for transcription.

We have a dictation every English class.

 

Dictionary(n)

Definition:A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.

He had to consult a pocket dictionary.


pariah (n.)

1610s, from Portuguese paria or directly from Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." "Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service" [OED]. Applied by Hindus and Europeans to any members of low Hindu castes and even to outcastes. Extended meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819.


aloof (adv.)
1530s, "to windward," from a- (1) "on" + Middle English loof "windward direction," probably from Dutch loef (Middle Dutch lof) "the weather side of a ship" (see luff (n.)). Originally in nautical orders to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter; hence "at a distance but within view" (1530s) and, figuratively, "apart, withdrawn, without community spirit" (with verbs stand, keep, etc.). As an adjective from c. 1600. Related: Aloofly; aloofness.


pragmatic (adj.)
1610s, "meddlesome, impertinently busy," short for earlier pragmatical, or else from Middle French pragmatique (15c.), from Latin pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Greek pragmatikos "fit for business, active, business-like; systematic," from pragma (genitive pragmatos) "a deed, act; that which has been done; a thing, matter, affair," especially an important one; also a euphemism for something bad or disgraceful; in plural, "circumstances, affairs" (public or private), often in a bad sense, "trouble," literally "a thing done," from stem of prassein/prattein "to do, act, perform" (see practical). Meaning "matter-of-fact" is from 1853. In some later senses from German pragmatisch.


pragmaticism (n.)
1865, "officiousness," from pragmatic + -ism. From 1905 as a term in philosophy by American philosopher C.S. Peirce (1839-1914).


pragmatical (adj.)
1590s, "concerned with practical results," from Latin pragmaticus (see pragmatic) + -al (1). Related: Pragmatically


pragmatism (n.)
"matter-of-fact treatment," 1825, from Greek pragmat-, stem of pragma "that which has been done" (see pragmatic) + -ism. As a philosophical doctrine, 1898, said to be from 1870s; probably from German Pragmatismus. As a name for a political theory, from 1951. Related: Pragmatist (1630s as "busybody;" 1892 as "adherent of a pragmatic philosophy")


vestige (n.)
c. 1600, from French vestige "a mark, trace, sign" (16c.), from Latin vestigium "footprint, trace," a word of unknown origin.
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