Saturday, August 30, 2014

Expand Your Vocabulary

6. Kilim n. ( of Persian origin) tapestry woven rugs or carpets. Can function as a prayer rug or decorative carpet.

7. Charette  \shuh-ret\ v. (French)  the intense final effort made by architectural students to complete their solutions to a given architectural problem in an allotted time or the period in which such an effort is made.

8. Amity  \ˈa-mə-tē\  n. a feeling of friendship; friendly relation between two or more parties

9. Sarcophagus /särˈkäfəgəsplural, sarchophagi  (of Greek origin) n. a stone coffin; funeral receptacle usually with adorned with inscriptions. Was used in ancient Rome and Egypt

10. Kaput \kə-ˈpt\  adj - completely ruined; destroyed; defeated; no longer functional   

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