Glossary for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Play General Terms:
Adversary:
NOUN—a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
Altar:
NOUN—an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
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Ascend:
VERB—to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise.
Briars:
NOUN—a prickly plant or shrub, especially the sweetbrier or a greenbrier.
2)a tangled mass of prickly plants.
3)a thorny stem or twig.
Conduct:
VERB—to present a specific behavior.
Cordial:
NOUN—a stimulating medicine.
Coronation:
NOUN—the act or ceremony of crowning a king, queen, or other sovereign.
Dominion:
NOUN—a territory, usually of considerable size, in which a single rulership holds sway.
Forfeit:
VERB—to lose or become liable to lose, as in consequence of crime, fault, or breach of engagement.
Handkerchief:
NOUN—a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one’s nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
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Harboring:
VERB—to give shelter to; offer refuge to.
Insinuation:
NOUN—an indirect or covert suggestion or hint, especially of a derogatory nature.
Minister:
VERB—to administer or apply.
Pavilion:
NOUN–a light, usually open, building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
Pipe:
NOUN—a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
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Prophesy:
NOUN—the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
2)something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.
Quarry:
NOUN—an animal or bird hunted or pursued.
2)game, especially game hunted with hounds or hawks.
3)any object of search, pursuit, or attack.
Renounce:
VERB—to give up by formal declaration.
Repair:
VERB—To betake oneself to a place or person, to proceed to, to sojourn (for those who do not condescend to simply ‘go’ places).
Sentinels:
NOUN—a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
2)a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack.
Slain:
VERB—to have been killed.
Stag:
NOUN—an adult male deer.
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Thicket:
NOUN—a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
Treachery:
NOUN—an act of perfidy, faithlessness, or treason; a type of betrayal.
Turkish Delight:
NOUN—Turkish delight or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra or powdered cream of tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common flavors include cinnamon and mint.
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Valiant:
ADJECTIVE—boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted.
Wardrobe:
NOUN—a piece of furniture for holding clothes, now usually a tall, upright case fitted with hooks, shelves, etc.
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Mythology Terms:
Centaur:
NOUN—in classical mythology: one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
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Dwarf:
NOUN—in folklore, a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
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Elf:
NOUN—in folklore, one of a class of preternatural beings, especially from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
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Faun:
NOUN—one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail and later also the hind legs of a goat.
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Spectre (or specter):
NOUN—a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost, phantom, apparition.
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Unicorn:
NOUN—a mythical creature that looks like a horse, with a single horn in the center of it’s forehead: often a symbol of chastity or purity.
2)a heraldic representation of this animal, in the form of a horse with a lion’s tail and with a long, straight and spirally twisted horn.
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Wood nymphs:
NOUN—a nymph of the wood. Nymph—one of the numerous class of lesser deities of mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior deity.
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Phrases:
“Let the Prince earn his spurs.” means, historically, to earn a knighthood by an act of bravery.
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Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
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wood nymphs: http://s591.photobucket.com/user/uchiha-sasuke51/media/3-1-6.jpg.html
Glossary of Terms presented by: Paige Dillard
Definitions found on dictionary.com.
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