April 14 Weekly Vocab

1. Word / Phrase: dialect

Meaning: a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

Context: many natives still speak dialect.

2. Word / Phrase: amber

Meaning: of the color of amber; yellowish-brown: amber fields of grain.

Context: the amber flower field.

3. Word / Phrase: nastier

Meaning: offensive to taste or smell; nauseating.

Context: the homeless guy had a nastier smell

4. Word / Phrase: bliss

Meaning: supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment.

Context: Muse's song (give me the bliss...)

5. Word / Phrase: ordo

Meaning: An annual calendar containing instructions for the Mass and office to be celebrated on each day of the year.

Context: Priests study their ordo every saturday