Renaissance Literature
Influenced by Petrarch, Joachim du Bellay brought this poetic form into French with a collection of 50 of them
Sonnet
This language has 2 main written forms: modern standard & classical, the language of the Koran
Arabic
A mounted soldier in armor who served a king or lord
knight
It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime"
Meridian
This creature puts the leap in Lepus, its Latin name
Owl
The play "Antonius", Mary Sidney's translation of a French work, helped revive this form of "lone speaking" monologue
soliloquy
This language is spoken by about 11 million in Europe & about 200 million in South America
Portuguese
This verb means to satisfy, especially one's thirst
slake
On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane
Tropical Storm
This creature puts the leap in Lepus, its Latin name
Hare or jackrabbit
A romantic epic, him "Innamorato" was followed nearly 30 years later by him "Furioso" in 1516
Orlando
Almost extinct, the Coeur d'Alene language is spoken by a few Native Americans on a reservation in this U.S. state
Idaho
"Over hill, over" this small valley--both landforms come from the Old English
dale
A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this
Altitude
Instead of its deadly moniker, you can call the large black and white sea creature by this 4-letter Latin name
Orca
Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this "Mount" near Jerusalem
Mount of Olives
Standard Chinese is based primarily on this form of Chinese spoken by the educated in Beijing
Mandarin
This word usually comes before "out", meaning to barely manage a living
eke
The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface
Projection
A horse is this, also a Peter Shaffer play title
Equus
Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian
Baccaccio
Before 2009 Greenland had 2 official languages: Greenlandic & this
Danish
This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something
bight
According to the "Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas" map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these
inch and mile
Pullus, "chicken", gives us this English word for a young & yummy hen
pullet