T2C - Week One Vocab

Tumbrils

Tumbrils

An open cart that tilted backwards to empty out its load, used to convey condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Turnkeys

A jailer

Incredulity

The state of being unwilling or unable to believe something

Requisition

An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials; demand the use or supply of, especially by official order or military or public use

Auspicious

Favorable, of good omen

Monseigneur

A title or form of address used of or to a French-speaking prince

Inexorable

Inflexible, willfully immovable

Blunderbuss

A short-barreled, large-bored gun with a flared muzzle, used at short range; an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision.

Gaols

A correctional institute used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government; a prison

Potentate

A monarch or ruler, especially an autocratic one (or with absolute power)

Emphatic

Showing or giving emphasis, expressing something forcibly and clearly

Pernicious

Highly injurious, causing injury

Escutcheon

A shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms; a flat piece of metal for protection and often ornamentation, around a keyhole, door handle, or light switch

Sonorous

Resonant, imposing deep or full

Unfathomable

Incapable of being fully explored or understood; impossible to measure the extent of

Epoch

A period of time

Retinue

A group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person

Forlorn

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

Debauched

Indulging in or characterized by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; dissolute

Incorrigible

Unmanageable, unruly

Piscatory

Fish-like; relating to or dependent on fishing