The Alchemist Vocabulary - Week 1
You will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday, February 8th

1. proprietor (p. 4) A person who has the exclusive right or title to something; an owner, as of real property. 

2. zenith (p. 8)  A highest point or state; culmination

3. levanter (p. 27)  A strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean

4. omen (p. 28) Anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent  

5. trajectory (p. 38)  A chosen or taken course

6. teeming (p. 42) Abounding or swarming with something, as with people

7. rueful (p. 53)  Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful

8. obligation (p. 54)  A duty or commitment

9. realize (p. 55) To obtain or achieve, as gain or profit 

10. hookah (p. 57) An Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through 

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The Alchemist Vocabulary - Week 2
You will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday, February 15th

1. sacristy (p. 163)an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept

2. incessant (p. 62) Continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending

3. intuitive (p. 73) Direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension

4. nostalgia (p. 74) A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time

5. balk  (p. 75) To stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified

6. mania (p. 81) Excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze

7. incredulous (p. 82) disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

8. exultant (p. 92) Marked by great joy or jubilation; triumphant

9. suffuse (p. 105) Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

10. garbed (p. 135) To cover with or as if with clothing; dress