random vocabulary

mir

• In Russian history, a self-governing community that leased land, allocated acres, and shared expenses

• typically among peasants

Bolshevism

• The strategy used by the Bolsheviks in attempting to gain power in Russia

• A form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin

  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Methuselah

• a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

• He is claimed to have lived the longest life, dying at 969 years old

thoroughfares

A main road or public highway

ex. Arbat is a road/thoroughfare in Moscow (Table for Two)

Bolshoi, the Kremlin, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory

landmarks in Russia

• Bolshoi Theatre - a historic opera house in Moscow

• Kremlin - a fortified complex located in Moscow (historic center of the country's capital city)

  • comprises five palaces, four cathedrals, and an enclosing wall along with numerous towers

• Tchaikovsky Conservatory - a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow

progeny

• A person's descendants considered as a group; family

magnanimity

• the virtue of being great of mind and heart

• usually encompasses, a refusal to be petty, a willingness to face danger, and actions for noble purposes

expatriate

send into exile

ex. the Agency of Expatriate Affairs was the department one applied for an exit visa from Russia (Table for Two)

patronymics

• Of, relating to, or derived from the name of one's father or a paternal ancestor

idiosyncratic

milieu

• An environment or a setting

anathema

• A vehement denunciation; a curse

• A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication

remuneration

pay or other financial compensation provided in exchange for an employee's services performed

belied

contradict

octogenarian

Being between 80 and 90 years of age.

quayside

the area adjacent to a quay or wharf or a system of quays

Lamé

type of fabric

limerence

clandestine

pedantic

magnanimous