DEAL THE CARDS
In a kids' game an unpaired queen is this; if you're holding it as the last card you lose
Old Maid
Secrecy or a type of agreement not to disclose details publicly
Confidentiality
A coming of age story that touches on systemic injustice and racism. One of the main characters is Scout.
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Harper Lee
To give up the throne
abdicate
The word for this part of speech is from the Latin for "word"
verb
Ochos Locos as its name suggests is an Android app for this card came.
Crazy Eights
It's the removal of harmful substances such as radioactive material or poisonous gas from an area
Decontamination
This novel is about a dystopian society in which all books are burned. Society is enslaved by mass media, drugs, and forced conformity
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
A not so nice collection of pus caused by infection
an abscess
Today meaning a buyer or seller of stocks, it may have come from one who opened casks of wine
a broker
Hold the gin & deal 7 cards when 3 or 4 play this game instead of just 2 people
Rummy
The emission of light by living organisms like fireflies
Bioluminescence
Nurse Ratched rules the psychiatric ward with an iron fist. She gets into constant conflict with McMurphy who tries to defy her rules.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kessey
Military term for a 180
an about face
Now meaning "really great", this adjective is from the Latin for "frightening"
terrific
In a variant of this game instead of Do you have any aces? you ask for an ace of a specific suit
Go Fish
It's a refusal to obey orders or submit to authority in the military
Insubordination
This book involves characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Servile or wretched, like poverty
abject
Person comes from "persona", one of these donned by a Roman actor to play a different character
a mask
In 1959 a championship for this card game debuted on TV with Charles Goren providing the play-by-play.
Bridge
Film industry position of the person who oversees the camerawork & the lighting
Cinematographer
This epic poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Paradise Lost
John Milton
A summary of a document or text
an abridgment (or an abstract)
French for "raw", it's the 4-letter name of a light grayish-yellowish-brown
ecru