VOCABULARY

TEVET
10th month of Jewish calendar. 10th of Tevet is a fasting day, commemorates siege of Jerusalem (which culminated in the destruction of Solomon's Temple). Modern-day remembrance of the Holocaust.

RICTUS
1. gape or cleft of an open mouth or beak.
2. a fixed or unnatural grin or grimace, as in horror or death
3. the opening of the mouth, especially in a grimace or expression of pain

BOB'S YOUR UNCLE
concludes a set of simple instructions ("and their you have it" "you're all set")

ORDURE
1. excrement; dung
2. something morally offensive; filth

SHAH OF IRAN
Iranian Emperor 16SEP41 - 11FEB79 (overthrown)
White Revolution: economic and social reform to transform Iran into a global superpower.
Western influence.
modernization, nationalizing natural resources, extending suffrage to women.
target of two assassination attempts.
close alliance with US until 1979n Iranian Revolution (Iran Hostage Crisis)

SUPPURATE
undergo the formation of pus; fester

PRATTLE
foolish or inconsequential talk

OBSEQUIOUS
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

IGNOMINY
public shame or disgrace

KEEN
wail of grief for a dead person; an Irish funeral song accompanied by wailing in lamentation for the dead

CARRION
the decaying flesh of dead animals

MOTLEY
incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate

CLEAVE
stick fast to; adhere strongly to; become very strongly involved with or emotionally attached to
(also means to split or sever, divide [as in a cell])

MIRTH
amusement, esp. expressed in laughter

CHORTLE
a breathy, gleeful laugh

FIRMAMENT
the heavens or the sky, esp. when regarded as a tangible thing. a sphere or world viewed as a collection of people.

PANOPLY
a complete or impressive collection of things; a splendid display

REFUSE
n. matter thrown away or rejected as worthless; trash (waste, excrement)