"V"ocabulary
Someone who exchanges goods or services for money.
What is a Vendor?
Italian pastries consisting of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta.
What is a Cannoli?
A collegiate research university in England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
What is Cambridge?
The lower part of a person's or animal's cheek, especially when it is fleshy or drooping
What is a Jowl?
The cold war began after the end of World War II and these two countries were at the forefront of it trying to show the rest of the world their economic systems were superior.
Who are The United States and The Soviet Union?
Having or showing heroism or courage
What is Valient?
Also known as burnt cream or Trinity cream, and virtually identical to the original crema catalana, is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
What is Crème Brule?
used to express strong distaste or disgust. Sometimes you may add a "Y" at the end if you're a child.
What is Yuck?
This war in southeast Asia was one of the most notable during the cold war and was very controversial back in the U.S. Guerrilla warfare was a main tactic in this war and was one of the few wars where the U.S. did not fair well.
What is the Vietnam War?
A wanderer with no established residence or means of support.
What is a Vagrant?
A pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with a flavored icing. The dough, which is the same as that used for profiterole, is typically piped into an oblong shape with a pastry bag and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside.
What is an Eclair?
This Texas Statesmen has a city and a university named after him, known for short as SHSU.
Who is Sam Houston?
A normally short witty remark.
What is a quip?
Fought on the 38th Parallel this war was the first to take place during the cold war, Douglas Macarthur grew famous from these battles that lasted 4 years ending with an armistice in 1953 yet the countries are still separate to this day.
What is the Korean War?
To defeat in a competition, race, or conflict
What is Vanquish?
A small cake or biscuit, typically made from ground almonds (the original main ingredient) coconut or other nuts, with sugar and sometimes flavorings, food coloring, glacé cherries, jam or a chocolate coating
What are Macaroons?
This University's May 4th scholarships honor the four students who were shot and killed on its Campus on May 4th, 1970.
What is Kent State?
A musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings
What is a Harp?
During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of under Western control. Which led Harry Truman to start dropping food and supplies from airplanes which was commonly referred to as this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
If you describe someone, usually a woman, as this, you mean that they are lively, exciting, and attractive
What is Vivacious?
A layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine.
What is Baklava?
The fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. This University located in New Jersey, is also known for being where President Woodrow Wilson Attended.
What is Princeton?
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.
What is a Ploy?
This senator became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?