Literature
Narrator and butler of Darlington Hall; dignity’s true believer
Stevens
A pyramid with a circular base
Cone
Total change in a population’s physical and behavioral traits over time
Evolution
A resource that replenishes naturally and quickly, like solar, wind, hydro
Renewable resource
The illusion of depth
Perspective
The bantering American who bought Darlington Hall
Mr. Farraday
I = Prt
Simple interest
The stable internal state every animal continuously seeks
Homeostasis
The discipline of representing Earth through maps
Cartography
Opposites on the color wheel that mix to brown in equal parts
Complementary colors
Light-hearted talk; perhaps ‘‘the key to human warmth’’
Bantering
Figures have the same shape and size: equal sides and angles
Congruent
Chemical messages carried in blood to specific target tissue
Hormones
Average number of children born to a woman
Total fertility rate
How an artist organizes the elements
Composition
What a dignified butler never abandons for the private self
Professional self
A line that intersects a circle in two points
Pairing a neutral stimulus with one that already produces a response
Classical conditioning
Losing young, educated, skilled residents
Brain drain
Newton’s chart of color relationships
Color wheel
Term with which Stevens refers to his recent slips, and once his father’s
Trivial errors
(n!) / ((n - k)!k!)
Combination formula
Chemicals released across the gap between neurons to change firing odds
Neurotransmitters
Fragmentation of a region into smaller, hostile units
Balkanization
Dots or marks the eye connects
Implied line