Hamilton Ed Vocab Week 2

Allow

Allow

to permit, to admit or concede

Apartment

a room

Art

skill, craft, talent, or cunning

Chaise

an open carriage pulled by a horse

Commission

a mission or job, often for a soldier, an officer's position or rank

Distracted

inattentive; unable to concentrate, mentally disturbed; insane

Divert

to cause to change course, to entertain or amuse, something entertaining

Exponent

an advocate or supporter; a proponent

Fancy

to imagine, something imagined; an illusion of the senses, to desire or like, a whim; transient inclination

Fine

satisfactory, of an excellent or high quality, delicate or subtle, delicate in structure or texture

Fix

to repair, to make firm or stable, to attach or fasten or implant firmly, to direct one's eyes or attention toward

Fortnight

fourteen nights; a period of two weeks

Gay

merry or happy, bright or showy, noble or excellen

Gross

large or coarse; unrefined; with reference to bulk

Hand

handwriting

Impertinent

rude, not pertinent; irrelevant

Intercourse

any kind of dealings; often interpersonal

Let

allow or permit, to rent out as a house

Liquor

any liquid, not necessarily alcoholic

Mien

face, countenance, or appearance; manner

Nature

disposition of mind or temper; essential characteristics or qualities of

Obscure

unclear or vague, not well known; not known; uncertain, to conceal; to make unclear

Paint

to put on makeup, to depict

Peculiar

strange or unusual, particular; unique

Perverse

inclined to go against expectations

Phaeton

an open carriage pulled by two horses

Plain

simple; undecorated, clear; understandable, not beautiful; homely

Proprietary

right or proper in terms of etiquette; decorum

Rent

past tense of rend, to tear, large tear, often in or resembling one in fabric

Retire

to go in for the evening; to go to bed

Sensible

able to sense or perceive; being perceptive

Sex

gender

Singular

unprecedented, unusual, eccentric, or exceptional

Stir

to move or rise, to arouse strong feelings in; to excite

Toilet

a dressing table for applying makeup and jewelry and for fixing hair, the act of dressing at such a table

Try

to attempt; to test, to subject someone to trial, to make great demands on (a person or quality)

Vex

to annoy or frustrate someone; to irritate

Vulgar

common or crude, not necessarily disgusting

Wit

the powers of the mind, intellect, humor, having such qualities

Withdraw

to leave

Any port in a storm

when you're in trouble, any solution/way out is good enough, even if you don't particularly like the solution

Beyond the pale

unacceptable or outlawed, typically outside the boundaries of morality and good judgment

By the by

an interjection meant to casually introduce/ emphasize information in a conversation, on a side note, incidentally

Grass before breakfast

a duel fought at first light (dawn)

He worships his creator

this phrase is a way of saying someone worships himself, typically is seen with the phrase 'self-made man'

Land sakes/law sakes alive/man alive

"my goodness!"; a way of expressing surprise

Mad as a hatter

completely crazy, mentally ill, someone behaving irrationally; (a result of mercury poisoning in hat factories)

Not to know someone from Adam

to not know someone, to be unable to recognize someone since you have never met them

Penny dreadful

cheap popular literature (normally published every week or so), typically gruesome stories focusing on criminals or detectives

To be of a certain age

refers to people who are not young, a more polite way of calling someone old or middle aged