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Last Supper
The final meal that, according to Christian belief, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday.

Herod II
The son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest (Mark 6:17). For a brief period he was his father's heir.

Salome
The Daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip's death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis and became queen of Chalcis and Armenia Minor.

Fahrenheit(symbol °F)

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A Room with a View
A 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England.

Lethal Weapon
A 1987 American buddy cop action comedy directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of L.A.P.D. detectives and stars Mitchell Ryan and Gary Busey as their primary adversaries.


vocabulary

1.octave (noun)

    An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch.
        e.g.: The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
    The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
        e.g.: The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.

2.retort (noen)

    A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.

3.Damp (noun)

    steam
    fume

4.fume (noun)

    A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
        e.g.: Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
    A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

5.Dose (noun)

    container made from wood, metal or plastic; box
    air tight metal containment used to conserve food; tin; can

6.writhe (verb)

    To twist, to wring (something).
    To contort (a part of the body).
    To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.  

7.wring (verb)

    To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
        e.g.: You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
    To obtain by force.
        e.g.: The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.

8.redeem (verb)

    To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
    To liberate by payment of a ransom.
    To set free by force.
    To save, rescue

9.ooze (noun)

    Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
    Secretion, humour.
    A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.

10.muck (noun)

    Slimy mud.
        e.g.: The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
        e.g.: I need to clean the muck off my shirt.

11.snag (noun)

    A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
    Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.

12.marsh (noun)

    An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

13.Ridge (noun)

    A surname​ after a natural landscape feature.
    A male given name transferred from the surname.

14.contemplate (verb)

    To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
    To consider as a possibility.
        e.g.: I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.

15.hectic (adjective)

    Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
        e.g.: hectic fever; a hectic patient
    Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
        e.g.: The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

16.mindset (noun)

    A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
        e.g.: Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset.


17.intact (adjective)

    Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; whole; undefiled; left complete or entire; not damaged.
        e.g.: I packed my belongings carefully so that they would survive the move intact.
    Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.
        e.g.: The opposite of a circumcised penis is an intact penis.

18.antagonize (verb)

    To work against; oppose; especially to incite reaction.
        e.g.: The other children constantly antagonized Joe to the point of tears.

19.turmoil (noun)

    A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
    Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.

20.sobriety (noun)

    The quality or state of being sober.
    The quality or state of not being intoxicated.
    The quality or state of being grave or earnestly thoughtful.
    The state or quality of being unhurried; a state of calm.
    A state of moderation or seriousness.
    A state of modest in color or style.
    Soundness of judgement.

21.drubbing (noun)

    A severe beating.
        e.g.: His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.
    A thorough defeat.
        e.g.: The debate team got a drubbing from the competition.

22.litigate (verb)

    To go to law.

23.disjoint (adjective)

    not smooth or continuous; disjointed

24.perspire (verb)

    To emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores.
    To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
        e.g.: A fluid perspires.

25.bewildering (adjective)

    Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
        e.g.: There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

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