English: The bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

7 flashcards · English · by lakesare

1. Fred's so conceited he'd never believe anyone would refuse him.

   Excessively proud of oneself; vain.

2. Long, secluded drive that had been whitened with broken quahog shells.

   A large, rounded edible clam of the Atlantic coast of North America. Also called hard clam, hardshell clam. The primary setting of Family Guy is Quahog, a fictional city in Rhode Island.

3. A huge shaggy German Shepherd.

   Having long, thick, unkempt hair or fur.

4. What's this hairstyle? A woman's hairstyle in which the hair is turned back off the forehead in a roll.(Or a man's hairstyle in which the hair is combed back from the forehead without a parting.)

   Pompadour Mid 18th century (denoting an item of costume associated with the Marquise de Pompadour): named after Madame de Pompadour.

5. What's mackintosh?

   A full-length waterproof coat. A gentleman's Macintosh, from an 1893 catalogue

6. What is the Grey's Anatomy show named after?

   Gray's Anatomy - Henry Gray's classic English medical textbook (1858). The show's title, Grey's Anatomy, was devised as a play on words: a reference to both Henry Gray's classic English medical textbook, Gray's Anatomy (first published in 1858 and still in print), and the title character Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo).An illustration from the American 1918 edition.

7. She was wearing a dress with purple cartwheels on it and she looked awful.

   The wheel of a cart. Also: a circular sideways handspring with the arms and legs extended.