Word Puzzle

Here are some vocab words..

1. "A cataclysm will flatten the sordid mountain range, canceling every trace of the metropolis always dressed in new clothes."(116)

Cataclysm: A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change or a change in earth's crust.

2. "Still, at the zenith of Beersheba there gravitates a celestial body that shines with all the city's riches..."(112)

Zenith: the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer or the

 highest point or state; culmination.

3. "Despite its pride in its new wealth, the city, at heart, felt itself incongruous, alien, a usurper."(107)

Incongruous: 1. Lacking in harmony; incompatible: a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation.

2. Not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent: a plan incongruous with reason.

3. Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate: incongruous behavior.

4. "Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the

foliage" (77)

Foliage: it means leafless branches.

5. "Lares of illustrious, but decaying palaces, full of hauteur, or with Lares from tin shacks, susceptible and distrustful."(79)

Hauteur: haughty (arrogantly superior) manner or spirit; arrogance.

6. "Extendind his beringed hand from beneath the silken canopy of the imperial barge, to point to the bridges arching over the canals" (85)

Barge: ark, or boat.

7. "Bridges and canals, each other different from the others: cambered, covered, on pillars, on barges, suspended, with tracery balustrades." (90)

Cambered: to arch slightly; bend or curve upward in the middle.

Balustrades: a railing with supporting balusters

8. "And what a variety of windows looks down on the streets: mulllioned, moorish, lancet, pointed, surmounted by lunettes or stained-glass roses.."(90)

Mullioned: A vertical member, as of stone or wood, dividing a window or other opening.

9. Moorish: spanish architecture characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate decoration.

10. Lancet: a tall narrow window set in a lancet arch (narrow and pointed)

11. Lunettes: a small circular or crescent-shaped opening in a vaulted roof.

12. "That I conjured up, through its name: Euphrasia, Odile, Margarita, Getullia." (92)

Conjured: to imagine, picture.

13. "On the dock the sailor who caught the rope and tied it to the bollard resembled a man who had soldiered with me and was dead" (94)

Bollard: a thick post on a ship or wharf, used to secure topes and hawsers.

14. "In a repetition that can be followed throughout the whole woof." (96)

Woof: the textures of a fabric.