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Vocabulary Activity "In the Skin of a Lion"
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Bitumiers : Term for workers who spread and iron tar with wooden blocks that they keep tied to their belts.
Nonplussed : So surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react.
Cogs : A wheel with a series of projections on its edge, which transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.
Sarmi : Macedonian word meaning “cabbage rolls”.
Vetch : Term for iguana food.
Languor : The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia.
Chetnik : Term for a member of a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force. “Political activists, freedom-fighters.”
Demarcation : The action of fixing the boundary or limits of something.
Tartufi : Italian term for a kind of truffle.
Gramophone : Old-fashioned term for record player.
Maudlin : Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.
Sujuk : Balkan term for “sausages with leeks and pork and garlic.”
Lo so : Italian term that means, “I understand this” or “I know that”
Pomodataeleganten : Macedonian phrase meaning, “stylish!”
Comesichiama : Italian for “What is your name?”
Deus ex machina : An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation.
Scomparso : Italian for vanished, disappeared.
Vocabulary Activity "In the Skin of a Lion"
Across:3. | Old-fashioned term for record player. | 8. | Italian for vanished, disappeared. | 9. | Balkan term for “sausages with leeks and pork and garlic.” | 10. | Term for workers who spread and iron tar with wooden blocks that they keep tied to their belts. |
| 11. | An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation. | 12. | So surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react. | 13. | Italian for “What is your name?” |
| | Down:1. | Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness. | 2. | A wheel with a series of projections on its edge, which transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar. | 4. | Macedonian phrase meaning, “stylish!” | 5. | The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia. |
| 6. | Italian term for a kind of truffle. | 7. | Italian term that means, “I understand this” or “I know that” | 8. | Macedonian word meaning “cabbage rolls”. |
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Vocabulary Activity "In the Skin of a Lion"
Across:3. | Old-fashioned term for record player. | 8. | Italian for vanished, disappeared. | 9. | Balkan term for “sausages with leeks and pork and garlic.” | 10. | Term for workers who spread and iron tar with wooden blocks that they keep tied to their belts. |
| 11. | An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation. | 12. | So surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react. | 13. | Italian for “What is your name?” |
| | Down:1. | Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness. | 2. | A wheel with a series of projections on its edge, which transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar. | 4. | Macedonian phrase meaning, “stylish!” | 5. | The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia. |
| 6. | Italian term for a kind of truffle. | 7. | Italian term that means, “I understand this” or “I know that” | 8. | Macedonian word meaning “cabbage rolls”. |
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© 2016
PuzzleFast.com, Noncommercial Use Only